Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. Rebooting after a general upgrade will make no difference. Nonsense.

Re: Debian on ancient machines

2007-02-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:25 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: Two popular ones I know of are: DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the entire *.iso image is But he can run also

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 10:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-15 21:19:26, schrieb Mike McCarty: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] How do you have coded this on a 8085? Was it not a 8080/8086 and they are 8 Bit No. 8080/8085 have 8-bit registers.

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Endsley
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:21:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: Why not install Linux and dosemu? On a machine with 16MB? It fills a need I

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 10:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-17 11:51:56, schrieb Ron Johnson: Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running C600 with only 16MB??? I have an Athlon XP2400+ running with a PC2700/333 32 MByte

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 03:58, Chris Lale wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [...] I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has the *incredibly* useful app checkrestart. Run it after you upgrade (and restart X) to see what is still using old file

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +,

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 12:05, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually, I'm serious about the

Re: /dev/sda1 -- /dev/hda1 ???

2007-02-21 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:44:42PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:38:16PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: root=/dev/sda1 to: root=/dev/hda1 Um... Is this bad or something? Why does /dev/sda1 not

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 07:32, John Hasler wrote: Kevin Mark writes: You certainly are correct in that the wide paper left sufficient room to make notes, etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the back for flow charts and such. Print in

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: Earlier today I noticed these messages in /var/log/syslog: Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault

latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and completeness (proper version

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. Rebooting after a general upgrade will make

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
Hi again, Michelle. I think that, for such a long document (2500 pages, 11 volumes), LaTeX makes very good sense. Using the LaTeX \include directive, you could keep each volume in a separate file, and yet LaTeX would process the set of files as one large document. And LaTeX provides valuable

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with this mail. what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's

[OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from? What's the model number? http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f0a0/

questions regarding debian use

2007-02-21 Thread tbctalonso
Hi! We just installed Debian a couple of days ago, and so far are thrilled with what we've found! I've just encountered a couple of difficulties, I'd like to request help with. 1. When I attempted to add my printer, was unable to complete installation process. Initially, the name and model of my

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +, andy wrote: Hi all

Re: Debian on ancient machines

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:25 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: Two popular ones I know of are: DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the

Re: questions regarding debian use

2007-02-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. When I attempted to add my printer, was unable to complete installation process. Initially, the name and model of my printer popped up automatically, but in the screen where I am suppose to choose printer make and model, my model #

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from? What's the model

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:34, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at

Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Ropetin Again
We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To support a specific web application, I need to upgrade the version of MySQL we have installed. To achieve this I set up apt-pinning to Testing, and

VMWARE problem with Etch

2007-02-21 Thread Guillermo Garron
Hi, three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not able to run Debian First on Gnome, i could open the console, connect to the server (localhost) but when i browse for the file I got an error, that is documented on the internet, but with no solutions. :( I tried with XFCE

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Larry Irwin
On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from? What's the model number?

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:52, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with this mail. what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff

Security bug in CAPI code; please test updates

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
There is a potential buffer overflow in logging of CAPI messages in libcapi20 (part of isdnutils; bug 408530). The same broken code from libcapi20 is present in the Linux kernel (bug 411294). Also, the affected functions are not thread-safe and are unlikely to be made so without API changes;

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:53:06 +0100, Joe wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..huh??? Both c-w and C-q works for me, both in kde and fluxbox, on both Iceweasel and Konqueror. Perhaps you're running Sarge. If you've

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:04:33PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To support a specific web application, I need to upgrade the version of MySQL we have

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: Looks like a flame war to me No, just some good natured humor. indeed. :) This computer boots strait into KDE because the installer put in the init scripts to start kdm. (I used

Re: VMWARE problem with Etch

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:12 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: Hi, three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not able to run Debian Have you properly compiled and setup VMware on you new installation? Are you running a Debian Kernel? which one? Do you have kernel-package

enlightenment news server

2007-02-21 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Hi All! I'm having trouble customizing a theme in the enlightenment under etch. Sourceforge.net holds a couple of mailing lists on developing and using enlightenment. I'd like to view and post to those lists via thunderbird (...sory, I ment icedove ;) ) but I can't find what news server holds

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:19, Larry Irwin wrote: On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from?

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:19 -0500, Larry Irwin wrote: On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from? What's

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread H.S.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The last time I saw this it was the end of my disk. What does /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/hdb say? Hugo Here it is what it says: ## ~# /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -a -d ata /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.36

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-21 Thread Archive
Michelle Here is an excerpt from Xen Development that I think applies to your situation. There do not appear to be a lot of Debian possibilities as near as I can find out. But I'm still forging around. Your questions are further down. Here is the scoop from Xen Development regarding AMD.

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:45:35 -0600, Hugo wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: The only reason you need to

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Ropetin Again
On 2/21/07, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:04:33PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To support a specific web

syntax higlighting of vim in konsole

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .vimrc set bg=dark hls syn on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju When I search for kamaraju in file.c inside a vim session opened by 1) konsole (with white on black schema) then the highlighted string is shown in brown

Re: Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

2007-02-21 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 2/20/07, Niels Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported. I think this is the problem I had. You need to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config to allow sending mail outside your computer. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:47:03PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: I have tried to compile my own Xen-Kernel but failed... Is there a Step-by-Step docu/howto HOW to build your OWN Xen-Kernel on a Debian-System? This is something I wrote a while back about compiling your own Xen kernel

Re: cannot find PDF file printed by cups

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Stolp
* H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-21 11:30]: Hello, On Debian Testing, I have installed a cups-pdf virtual printer. Last time I check, last week, it was working okay. Today when I tried to print a web page, it seemed like the virtual printer worked, but the printed file was nowhere to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 15:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: Looks like a flame war to me No, just some good natured humor. indeed. :) This computer

How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Grok Mogger
Hello, I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at my gmail

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Grok Mogger
Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail'

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. man mail My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email It already does. ...so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the

[Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that output. I'd like to

OT: Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: What do you mean legitimate internet mail? What would illegitimate internet mail be? Well.. not to throw gas on the fire spam, improperly formatted headers, :-( Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:53 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix

Re: syntax higlighting of vim in konsole

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: How can I get xterm's behaviour in konsole as well? I am using Debian Etch (testing). :set t_Co=256 inside .vimrc solved the issue. regards raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To

was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of

nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for that matter. Thanks Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install of etch

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi List; I want to try out Etch. I have a DVD of Sarge (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. Most likely it uses the 'sendmail' command, which all MTAs provide. Are you telling me that if I set my MAILTO entry to something

Mail for newbies (was Re: How does Cron send email?)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 18:53, Grok Mogger wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just

Re: Install of etch

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:32 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; I want to try out Etch. I have a DVD of Sarge (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Depends. Is the test machine a couple of

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 19:16, John Hasler wrote: Grok Mogger writes: [snip] I find that hard to believe. Why? Because he's been a client all his life. The technology has been magic to him. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for that matter. What

Re: Install of etch

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed February 21 2007 17:32, Kevin Kempter wrote: I want to try out Etch. I have a DVD of Sarge (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Either way will work. If I were in you situation I would

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Grok Mogger
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Ken Heard wrote: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Only if they contain a filesystem, otherwise as long as you aren't doing anything with the card at the time you yank it, everything should happen automagically

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: xorg is only core to people who still (*even* if they don't realize it) think that Real Operating Systems are designed the same way that MS Windows is designed. If that were the case, X woudldn't be network aware and would suck at trying to run it over a network.

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: I could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux box sitting right here without the need for a valid mail account on a mail server or anything of the like. That's right, isn't it? No. You have a valid mail account on a mail server: your own machine. You

Re: Install locations when not using .deb

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Peter Teunissen wrote: I'm trying to install CloverETL [1], a java based ETL tool. It's not in the repository, and they don't provide a rpm or deb installer, only the java apps etc. in a zip file or the java source. That's fine with me, but I'd like to follow debian's guidelines on the FSH. I

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Justin Hartman wrote: So down to the simple question. Is this really normal on a PC-based Laptop to experience such pitfalls in installing Debian? With the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, not usually. With Dell, HP, Acer, etc, yes, the experience is typical. This is a result of most laptop vendors not

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Ken Heard wrote: Thanks everyone for the replies. If I understand them correctly, the situation is as follows: PCMCIA cards can be hot plugged and hot unplugged just like for instance USB devices. Right. However, also like USB devices, if the PCMCIA card is or contains a mobile storage

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
rocky wrote: Hey all, I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. Can any of you help me on the following please? 1, How can

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Celejar wrote: On 15 Feb 2007 18:25:28 -0800 rocky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not

Re: switching mysql server on debian etch

2007-02-21 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:40:11AM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: [...] I've installed mysql-server-4.1 on etch but mysql-server-5.0 installed too. [...] $ apt-cache show mysql-server-4.1 Package: mysql-server-4.1 [...] Version: 5.0.32-3 Depends: mysql-server-5.0 [...] This is an empty

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michelle Konzack wrote: I can not recommend ReiserFS I second that advisory. I've found problems with data corruption on my system using reiser. and with XFS I have no experience. I am looking forward to the new ext4 which could give a performance plus for databases I tried XFS, but I

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Emenaker
Paul Johnson wrote: Voting with your money is important when it comes to compatability on Linux. I'd be all for getting something other than a Dell, but they were the only ones I could find that offered a laptop with a screen resolution meeting or exceeding 1600x1200. Does anybody know of

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I read an article: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says is a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption. But the article suggests

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:39:05PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on

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Re: [solved]Email receiving problems

2007-02-21 Thread Kelly
adding the command in main.cf and uncommented the line in maildroprc and it is now working. Thanks Kelly Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:04:26 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder if you need this in main.cf?

Re: was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:23:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: And secondly, with this little epiphany comes a realization of just how easy it is to spam and where it all comes from... I could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux box sitting right here without the need

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:20:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: rocky wrote: 3, What is the best way for me to find out which is the fastest mirror for me to download the Testing distribute packages? apt-spy unfortunately, it appears apt-spy is *still* broken (segfaults).

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. I've

Re: enlightenment news server

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:50:31PM +0100, Jakub Narojczyk wrote: Hi All! I'm having trouble customizing a theme in the enlightenment under etch. Sourceforge.net holds a couple of mailing lists on developing and using enlightenment. I'd like to view and post to those lists via thunderbird

XIO: fatal IO error 104

2007-02-21 Thread linux china
hello, I tried to search Internet but no lucky with following error, XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server 110.113.154.234:1.0 after 59 requests (58 known processed) with 0 events remaining. 110.113.154.234:1.0 is my Debian Linux on which tightVNC server is

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:33:16PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: Good suggestion, thank you. However, I checked the page; http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/m/ And I couldn't find mysql-server listed anywhere. Is there another backport site I'm not aware of? They are all in this

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar printout next to your terminal. I prefer 2 screens now. Left screen is the on-line Python manual, right screen is my code in vim, fully expanded. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what

Re: was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 21:30, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:23:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: [snip] The most amazing moment in the development of my *nix geekness was the

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 22:05, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar printout next to your terminal. I prefer 2 screens now. Left screen is the on-line Python manual, right screen is my

libusb stopped working?

2007-02-21 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi folks, Yesterday, jpilot stopped syncing my USB PalmPilot. I had been using libusb (i.e. usb: as the port). A reboot and a different cable didn't help, but un-blacklisting the visor module and changing the port to /dev/pilot -- i.e. using the kernel visor module instead of libusb -- and now

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: fully expanded? Yes, I am using vim in a wicked GUI and click on the leetle button which expands the window to the entire screen. :P Although I pine for the day I can give Wing IDE a try. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 23:00, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: fully expanded? Yes, I am using vim in a wicked GUI and click on the leetle button which expands the window to the entire screen. :P Although I pine for the day I can give Wing

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: What GUI would that be? The relevance being? I figured since you didn't know the terms of fully expanded you were one of dem d'ere CLI people who think GUIs are da werk uf da debil! -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key:

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Daniel B. wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: This is no different. Actually, it is. Sorry, nope. We're not talking about Seamonkey's Trash folder to which tentatively deleted messages are moved and from which users can recover or really delete those tentatively deleted messages, working

Re: Install of etch

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:32:56PM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; I want to try out Etch. Etch is the current 'testing' version of Debian, but will shortly be released. But I'd say its reasonable to install it. I have a DVD of Sarge (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install

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Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: So I am not arguing aginst LVM. Those that use it and recommend it keep telling me I should plan on using it. I will do that if these same people start explaining the features in way that makes sense to the kinds of things I have

Re: Xen-enabled kernel sources for etch

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:10:42PM +0300, Иванов Михаил wrote: Where can I find debian etch kernel sources patched for xen? This bug report contains a fix and instructions for using make-kpkg to rebuild your own kernel with the xen patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699

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