Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-18 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I think you have 2 options. First, you could try to update the BIOS. Newer versions may support reserving more memory for video. well, i cn get newer bios, but that can be flashed only using m$. since i alredy deleted the windows partition, it's not an option. If that doesn't work, you

OT: 230 million SLOCS!!!

2005-10-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, Any thoughts on this exciting article about 230 million SLOCs in Sarge. I'm surprised to search the lists and find no comments... http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2005/3/up6-3Amor.pdf

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-18 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:56:07PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > LaTeX is by far the best if you are writing a textbook. However, there Communications with O'Reilly lead me to believe that they are leaning towards XML. Is XML a "modern" possibility for serious book/paper preparation ? Joe

Re: P4 HT doesn't work

2005-10-18 Thread Erich Steiger
joe, you are right! i was looking to the CPU flags and saw the HT flag, so i thought this CPU should support that, my mistake. installing debian on another system with a "real" HT CPU was successful. eric On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:40, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:42 +0200

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > golfer wrote: > >> The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back >> on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, >> this may be ok, but it's not something I want to waste time doing >> routinely. > > The dist-upgr

Re: install ati driver

2005-10-18 Thread amalgam.swhe
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:48:36AM +0800, 张勇顺 wrote: > hi > first i am install ati driver8.14.13 in 2.6.8 with starge > and uses work well > but now i ues 2.6.13 kernel and gcc gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) > the driver is not work > i am install driver > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/fglrx/b

Re: Synaptic Package Manager read failure

2005-10-18 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
J Merritt wrote: > I was attempting to work with the repository list in > Synaptic. After disabling the two Sarge DVD entries > (contrib main), re-enabling them, and reloading the > deb list, I keep getting an error message that won't > go away. If I recheck the two entries "on," it still > produce

install ati driver

2005-10-18 Thread 张勇顺
hi first i am install ati driver8.14.13 in 2.6.8 with starge and uses work well but now i ues 2.6.13 kernel and gcc gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) the driver is not work i am install driver [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod11:45:22# ./make.sh gcc: couldn't run 'i486-linux-gnu-gcc-3

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-18 Thread furufuru
Hi all, marc wrote: [...] > I have tried with Emacs before, but it's like learning Japanese, where > every word and piece of grammar is different [...] Aha! I think I've found the reason why I was able to learn to use emacs so quickly. :) (Sorry I couldn't resist. I'm a native speaker of Japan

Re: Synaptic Package Manager read failure

2005-10-18 Thread gary
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:00 -0700, J Merritt wrote: > I was attempting to work with the repository list in > Synaptic. After disabling the two Sarge DVD entries > (contrib main), re-enabling them, and reloading the > deb list, I keep getting an error message that won't > go away. If I recheck the t

Re: NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote: > I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. > So far, the share works on the local network between my two local > machines, but only "sort of" on the remote machine. Try setting up a VPN with the remote network and using that fo

Synaptic Package Manager read failure

2005-10-18 Thread J Merritt
I was attempting to work with the repository list in Synaptic. After disabling the two Sarge DVD entries (contrib main), re-enabling them, and reloading the deb list, I keep getting an error message that won't go away. If I recheck the two entries "on," it still produces the same message, which is:

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-18 Thread Nelson Castillo
> LaTeX is by far the best if you are writing a textbook. However, there > is quite a steep learning curve. If you have no LaTeX experience at > all, a good book to get is "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" by > Leslie Lamport (the original developer of LaTeX). After that, or if you > alread

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:16:21AM +0200, Juraj Fedel wrote: > I need to write textbook for programming course. What tools can > you recommend (latex, docbook, ...)? Since I have not been involved > in writing manuals I will need some tutorials too. > Juraj > LaTeX is by far the best if you are wr

Re: CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK not working in Debian !

2005-10-18 Thread supermega
of course: # ip rule 0: from all lookup local 32765: from all fwmark 0x5 lookup isp2 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default Packets from are dropped. If the ip rule looked like that: 0: from all lookup local 32765: from all fwmark 0x5 lookup isp2 32765: from lo

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, mikepolniak wrote: > On 17:46 Tue 18 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote: > > I'm reinstalling my system onto a new sata disk I just purchased. I'd fun toys > > like to know what best practices people do, in order to get through this > > with the least possible hassle. - partiti

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-18 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:46 Tue 18 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote: > I'm reinstalling my system onto a new sata disk I just purchased. I'd > like to know what best practices people do, in order to get through this > with the least possible hassle. > I'm really just installing Debian in the new disk, and I'd like to hav

Re: new users

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from > >anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client > >(applet) for windows that I can host for personal use? Oh and how about > Not reall

Writing technical text

2005-10-18 Thread Juraj Fedel
I need to write textbook for programming course. What tools can you recommend (latex, docbook, ...)? Since I have not been involved in writing manuals I will need some tutorials too. Juraj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

mozilla bookmarks font behaving weird

2005-10-18 Thread H.S.
Hi, Since last few weeks, I am experiencing this weird problem in Mozilla on Debain Testing running 2.6.12. When I click on a bookmarks folder either on the bookmarks bar or on Bookmarks pull down menu, the highlighted bookmarks is displayed in an extra large font (if bookmarks are of 12pt, highl

Re: new users

2005-10-18 Thread m
I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client (applet) for windows that I can host for personal use? Oh and how about You could have an applet that scanned documents but you haven't a hope of doing a full

Re: Bash commands

2005-10-18 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Thanks for answering. Sorry it's taken so long to answer. I've just been too busy to get back to this. I've inserted my comments in line. michael wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:18 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi all, I downloaded the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide the other day an

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Justin Guerin on 18/10/05 16:31, wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 17:19, J Merritt wrote: I like the way k3b works on the Debian side. Better than how it works on the Mandrake side. In Debian, however, I'm having a problem that I'm sure has a simple solution. I do not have automount enabled. I'm

Archive (or package) signing

2005-10-18 Thread csj
I've built a small (3GB) archive for (internal) use in my mixed testing/unstable system (since it tends to be more stable that way). The new version of apt that drifted into testing keeps giving me warnings about my packages. Could somebody give me a link on how to (a how-to would be nice) build

kuickview and psd files

2005-10-18 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm trying to run thro a whole cd of images, some of which are photoshop format which kuickshow doesn't like. kuickshow says "perhaps the file format is unsupported or your lmlib is not installed properly" I looked for lmlib but it's not any package I can tell. I can't find any config option

login timeout on kernel 2.6.13 but not on 2.6.10

2005-10-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, When i boot from a custom compiled kernel 2.6.10, all goes well. If i use a 2.6.13.1 kernel with the same config (or a 2.6.11, 2.6.12 for that matter), weird stuff happens. First of all some services stop loading and the system boot stops. For instance, i would see the server boot and wh

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:56 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, back in the day, vi users would say, "why use Emacs, I've > > already got an OS". > > "Back in the day"? You say that like non-emacs users don't say that > today. :D That's just reminiscing. Back when syst

Re: shorewall post-int hangs on sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew Nelson
On 18 Oct 2005 13:36:18 -0700 "Colin Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use sarge and when I recently tried to install the most recent > update to shorewall( v2.2.3-2) my system hangs when trying to > configure shorewall. ps shows the postins script zombified. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps axfw

Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-18 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:46:46PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Will 'dpkg --get-selections' list all installed software? How about the > few ones I compiled from source? How do I document it? If you made them into .deb packages and installed them, they will be listed. -- If I start writing e

shorewall post-int hangs on sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Colin Ingram
I use sarge and when I recently tried to install the most recent update to shorewall( v2.2.3-2) my system hangs when trying to configure shorewall. ps shows the postins script zombified. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps axfw PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 7905 ?Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: colin [pr

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:10, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi! > [snip] > >>... > >>(II) I810(0): 6392 kBytes additional video memory is required to > >> enable tiling mode for DRI. > >>(II) I810(0): 4344 kBytes additional video memory is required to enable > >>DRI. (II) I810(0): Disabling DRI.

[xserver-xorg] - can't install, reinstall, remove, upgrade nor purge package

2005-10-18 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi all, I'm running unstable, and last time i did a dist-upgrade, the computer froze, and i couldn't do anything but hard-reboot. Following that, the upgrade of xserver-xorg seems to be problematic. How to "make the system believe" that the package was never installed?? i've already done some

Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?

2005-10-18 Thread Bruno Buys
I'm reinstalling my system onto a new sata disk I just purchased. I'd like to know what best practices people do, in order to get through this with the least possible hassle. I'm really just installing Debian in the new disk, and I'd like to have the new system as closely resembling the current

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Carlos Correia wrote: > Though, I still have a problem: the passwords. Where are they kept? I > noticed that in kopeterc they are saved as '**'... > > I'm about to upgrade several desktops to new hardware, and I don't think > that every user knows

Re: set from: address in standard command-line mailer (/usr/bin/mail)

2005-10-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:04:17AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail, the From: address is wrong; it's > apparently just prepending my user-id to my domainname. > > How can I tell mail to use a different From: address? I've trawled > through the docs, but not f

Re: Third party repositories

2005-10-18 Thread Bruno Buys
MJang wrote: Folks, Just wondering if there's any "official" (or somewhat complete) list of third party repositories for Debian. By "third party repository," I'm refering to alternative apt sources such as ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat and http://archive.kalyxo.org/kalyxo/ . Thanks, Mike

Re: NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-18 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On tirsdag 18 oktober 2005, 21:05, David Dawson wrote: > the remote machine can ls the share, send and receive small files > (say 100 bytes) but when an attempt to send or receive a larger file > is made, the konqueror process reports 'stalled' and goes into > uninterruptable sleep. Uh, ouch. Well

Re: P4 HT doesn't work

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:42 +0200, Debian wrote: > I have a P4 1.6 GHz with HT. It is enabled in the Bios and i'm using the > linux-image-2.6.12-SMP kernel. wheter x86info not /proc/cpuinfo are > knowing something about 2 virtual CPU's. > What is going wrong? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't h

Re: mail sender question

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:43 +0200, roberto wrote: > Hello everyone > i'd like to know if it is possible to know which is the operating > system used by the sender of a mail received by a common web mail > provider, e.g. Yahoo or GMail, > i know there is the option "full header" or something like th

Re: new users

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph H. Fry
A good article on freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1576/ Then on your web server use the sftp javascript client mentioned in the article... and no, the webserver does not need to be on the same machine... My website (hosted by a service) uses the sftp applet to allow me an easy way to

Re: Network module options in Debian Sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 00:06 +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:43:56PM -0300, Federico Petronio wrote: > > Hello, I write to you because after lot of trying I could not found a > > solution for this: > > > > I need to force 3 NICs (3Com 905C) to use "100baseTx-FD" mode, and I >

NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-18 Thread David Dawson
I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. So far, the share works on the local network between my two local machines, but only "sort of" on the remote machine. The two local machines are running Debian Sarge and the NSF server is running the 2.6.8-2-386 Debian kernel. The other local m

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
T wrote: Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in Debian to let you reinstall easily. So you have to go through the "10 times" approach -- it took me several (>=3) days to fully downgrade from Debian testing to Debian stable, after a single update command... Oh, wait, I still have "17 not upgrad

xdvi gets updated only if it is active window

2005-10-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using debian unstable, lets say I open a .dvi file using xdvi. Now I modify the latex source, and compile it. But then the contents in the xdvi window will not be changed until I bring xdvi window to the foreground. Is there any way to update the contents automatically even if the xdvi window i

Re: A full list of package and section name

2005-10-18 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:10:03PM -0400, T wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:12:12 +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > >> Is there any way to list all the packages and their section names? > > > > How about aptitude --display-format "%p %s" search ~n.* > > Thanks. > > Now, how to redirect the output,

Re: BitTorrent

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 00:40 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > especially torrents that take long. Every now and then I come across a > torrent which causes my adsl router (Netgear DG632) to stop forwarding > traffic. It shows it is still connected, but I cannot put any data through. > > How is t

Re: fail to load Gnome

2005-10-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, could you include your whole .xsession-errors file? Or is it just repeats of the same stuff? I think i had this problem once and i just had to delete some of the temporary files GNOME keeps in /tmp. Maybe you could try that? HTH, Cameron Matheson On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:53:13AM -0700, A

Third party repositories

2005-10-18 Thread MJang
Folks, Just wondering if there's any "official" (or somewhat complete) list of third party repositories for Debian. By "third party repository," I'm refering to alternative apt sources such as ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat and http://archive.kalyxo.org/kalyxo/ . Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Wacom Graphire 3 (usb) under Debian Sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Wolfgang Qual
Hi List, recently, I got a nice Wacom Graphire 3 (usb) graphic table. As far as I know, the driver for this device is already integrated in the Debian Kernel.I adapted my XF86-Config-4 after having read quite a few pages on the internet. However, it is still not possible to *work* with the graphic

Re: 2 wan + 2 fire + 1 mdz

2005-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:07 +0100, ns007532 wrote: > Hi > I recently upgrade my system with one more wan connection, connect to a > new firewall(Debian + iptables + snort + portsentry and bind9, etc.). I > only have one dmz box. Sorry, what is a DMZ box? As far as I know, DMZ stands for "DeMilit

Re: Everything SSH related is dead

2005-10-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 18, 2005 10:15 am, Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Having a touch of trouble with SSH. Anything that goes near SSH fails > horribly with a segfault. For instance running SSH at a command > prompt gives: > > Oct 18 14:13:06 localhost kernel: ssh[6763]: segfault at > 00014a00432c rip 000

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-18 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi! (II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 I don't use the GLcore module. I recall using that disabled direct rendering for me, but I'll have to go back and check again to be sure. Suffice to say, I don't use it and I do have direct

cp -a broke libpthread-0.10.so?

2005-10-18 Thread nasr . laili
[Using Debian-GNU/Linux 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux] Hi all, I don't know exactly whether this is a bug or what, but I deemed it useful to report what happened. While running a script to backup my /usr dir to a partition on a second HD I had to stop it with CTRL+C

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-18 Thread T
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:07:51 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: > >> " HOW TO REINSTALL DEBIAN FROM CD" > > Again, Debianites don't reinstall their systems (except in rare cases), > so it's not really a well-documented procedure. The short version is to > back up your /home dir

Re: guessnet problem

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
L.V.Gandhi a écrit : > > Maybe "arping -f" doesn't terminates with exit status 0. I imagine > > "arping -q" would do it. Still, guessnet "test-peer" should be able > > to find your host. Maybe with just "test peer" (not test3). > > arping is my test. Yes it is. I am saying that, in this context

Re: flexible restore/install system

2005-10-18 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
There are folks who have been thinking about this problem for a lot longer than you or me. Check out http://infrastructures.org for the concepts and ISConf[1] for the software. 1. http://trac.t7a.org/isconf - Ryan On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > at

Re: A full list of package and section name

2005-10-18 Thread T
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:12:12 +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: >> Is there any way to list all the packages and their section names? > > How about aptitude --display-format "%p %s" search ~n.* Thanks. Now, how to redirect the output, with package description, to a file? ie. aptitude --display-format

Re: Anyone know how to do a "timed program" with mplayer?

2005-10-18 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 17 October 2005 17:50, Oliver Lupton wrote: > I guess this isn't the neatest either, but how about using mplayer's > slave mode (-slave), so it reads for commands from stdin. And have a > simple script which sleeps for 1:30 and then prints whatever mplayer's > stop command is to mplayer?

fail to load Gnome

2005-10-18 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Hi All! Just did # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade After restart can't log in load Gnome. "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of

TV-OUT !!!

2005-10-18 Thread soo2debian
Howto configure xorg.conf to use LCD and TV at the same time? I've got intel852/855 videocard,I try i810switch and i855crt without any results. It's working correct under ms-windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 17 October 2005 17:19, J Merritt wrote: > I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used > Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the DVD/CD-writer > will automount and auto-unmount whenever you insert or eject DVD/CD > media. It has other issues, howev

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 00:40, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi, > > > No, you're confusing kernel modules with X modules. You can't load X > > modules into the kernel and vice versa. > > ok, thanks for clarification. > > firstly, i get this in my dmesg > ... > Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jo

Re: KDE, Konqueror, open/view Java jar file

2005-10-18 Thread rs
> What you can do is to change the MIME > type that .jar files map to so that it's application/zip instead of > application/java-archive. I suspect that KDE reads this file once at > startup and caches it, so you will probably have to end your KDE session > (i.e. logout) and start a new one after

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-18 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Schneider wrote: | On Tuesday 18 October 2005 00:27, Carlos Correia wrote: | |>I'm transfering my system to a new PC and I'd would like to copy Kopette |>account settings to that machine, so I don't have to fill all the info |>again, as I will

mail sender question

2005-10-18 Thread roberto
Hello everyone i'd like to know if it is possible to know which is the operating system used by the sender of a mail received by a common web mail provider, e.g. Yahoo or GMail, i know there is the option "full header" or something like this but i need to know the operating system, if possible :)

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-18 Thread golfer
On 10/17/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > golfer wrote: > > > The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back > > on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, > > this may be ok, but it's not something I want to waste time doing > > routinely. >

Re: KDE, Konqueror, open/view Java jar file

2005-10-18 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:06:44AM -0400, rs wrote: } Is it possible to set up Konqueror so it would open (i.e. show the } content of ) a java jar file the way it does for, say, tar or zip files? } Currently, when I click on a Jar file, Konqueror opens the "Open with" } dialog: } } Open 'zip:/home

Everything SSH related is dead

2005-10-18 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, Having a touch of trouble with SSH. Anything that goes near SSH fails horribly with a segfault. For instance running SSH at a command prompt gives: Oct 18 14:13:06 localhost kernel: ssh[6763]: segfault at 00014a00432c rip 2ac40817 rsp 7fce6e58 error 4 in the syslog ssh-

Re: guessnet problem

2005-10-18 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 10/18/05, Daniel Déchelotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Maybe "arping -f" doesn't terminates with exit status 0. I imagine > "arping -q" would do it. Still, guessnet "test-peer" should be able to > find your host. Maybe with just "test peer" (not test3). arping is my test. One can not us

Re: Anyone know how to do a "timed program" with mplayer?

2005-10-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Funk wrote: I can listen to a continuously ogg-streaming radio station with this command: mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg and I've successfully recorded (using scripts and at) fixed-duration RealPlayer radio shows to .wav to listen to them later. But I'd like to re

KDE, Konqueror, open/view Java jar file

2005-10-18 Thread rs
Hi, Is it possible to set up Konqueror so it would open (i.e. show the content of ) a java jar file the way it does for, say, tar or zip files? Currently, when I click on a Jar file, Konqueror opens the "Open with" dialog: Open 'zip:/home/luser.../lib/junit.jar'? Type: Java Archive [Save] [Ope

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: m> I know, but here's a 'for example'. I've loaded xemacs and opened m> gnus. It merrily waltzes off and downloads stuff from m> new.gmane.org... then presents me with two ngs: nndraft:drafts, m> nndraft:queue. Well, I presume they are ngs, although my

2 wan + 2 fire + 1 mdz

2005-10-18 Thread ns007532
Hi I recently upgrade my system with one more wan connection, connect to a new firewall(Debian + iptables + snort + portsentry and bind9, etc.). I only have one dmz box. I have 2 nics (eth0 and eth1)on dmz 10.196.3.2 and 10.196.4.2, in the firewall1 10.196.3.1 and in firewall2 10.196.4.1. The

flexible restore/install system

2005-10-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, at home I run a server with actually to many stuff on it to be safe. But i want to test a lot of things that it evolved to this situation. It has ldap, samba, courier, spamassassin, clamav, squirrel, exim4,... Anyway, for normal quick restores, restoring a backup is quick and painless. Bu

RE: apt-get update no longer functional after apt-get dist-upgrade earlier this morning

2005-10-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
[dpkg([EMAIL PROTECTED]/dpkg)] i guess apt secure is in version >= 0.6 apt   has the ability to verify gpg signatures of packages. read about it   here: http://www.syntaxpolice.org/apt-secure/ ; until you perform   the steps described on page 5, you will get warni

Re: guessnet problem

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Hi, L.V.Gandhi a écrit : > I have my /etc/network/interfaces as below. > [...] > iface home inet static >[...] >test1 peer address 192.168.0.1 #mac 00:26:54:0E:8E:C0 >[...] > > iface work inet static >[...] > # test3 peer address 150.1.35.2 mac 00:50:8B:71:7

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an old clunker that wouldn't take a big HDD so, being utterly > penniless I with great trepitation flashed the bios. It's not all that > hard and the box took an 80G hard drive no problem after that. Even if it is an older machin

apt-get update no longer functional after apt-get dist-upgrade earlier this morning

2005-10-18 Thread Piszcz, Justin
# apt-get update Get:1 http://mirrors.rcn.net testing Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://mirrors.rcn.net testing Release   Get:2 http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://mirrors.rcn.net testing/main Packages

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-18 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:54:53 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- Charlie said... >|--- > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:36:54 +0100 >|--- > marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- > >|--- > >|--- John Hasler said... >|--- > >|--- > Marc writes: >|--- > >|--- > > Any suggestions on h

Re: udev and hotplug status in unstable

2005-10-18 Thread [KS]
Carl Fink wrote: > > I'm running Testing, so my situation won't be exactly the same. > > Everything still works, but not as easily. I have to manually install the > visor kernel module (to sync my Palm Tungsten T3) and the usblp module (to > print to my Laserjet). It seems that udev doesn't det

Kernel 2.6 Problems

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Whiteley
Hello, I am having problems installing kernel 2.6 on my Dell Optiplex GX280. I have seen a lot of traffic on the web and the forums about this, but have not found a full fix. I am starting with a working 2.4 installation. This required me to switch the SATA mode in the bios from compatabili

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility

2005-10-18 Thread Klaus Thielking-Riechert
Byron, On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:14:20AM +1000, Byron Hillis wrote: > Does anybody know a simple network monitoring utility that > I can use to determine what individual processes on my > Debian Sarge system are continually using up my bandwidth? if you want to look on the bandwith used by spe

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-18 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
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 cont

Re: Freeze with Debian Sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Jacques Tarrade
The fix is there   http://users.utu.fi/sjsepp/linuxcompaqarmada100s.html     Jacques

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-18 Thread Raphael Schneider
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 00:27, Carlos Correia wrote: > I'm transfering my system to a new PC and I'd would like to copy Kopette > account settings to that machine, so I don't have to fill all the info > again, as I will probably need to do it on other users machine. > > Can anyome tell me where

Re: apt-get install without internet connection

2005-10-18 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:12:51PM +0200, Marc Brünink wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:12:51 +0200 > From: Marc Brünink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt-get install without internet connection > > > On Montag, Okt 17, 2005, at 13:25 Europe/Berlin, Marc