Re: Wireless Configuration Problem

Hi, On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) Have you tried connecting without WPA? No, I haven't yet. (I don't have rights to fiddle with AP configuration right now and cannot access to any other AP. But will try my chance talking with the related personal and post results

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

Nuno Magalhães wrote: > At the moment the only use i have for XP is for games, which i seldom > play anyway. I have Half-Life 2, Quakes 1, 2 and 4, Soldier of Fortune > 2 and Thief 3... Mostly shooters which usually are demanding as far as > graphics and framerate go. I have a lot of guests so occa

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

Damon L. Chesser wrote: > As for myself, I was just answering the question. BTW, the newest game > I have "Sins of a Solar Empire" is pretty high spec and works out of the > box with wine. I just tested it today. Works with out flaws. One of these days I'll have to sneak back into my Ubuntu

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:25:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > old disk. The newly inserted disks will have a different UUID, and, > should we use UUIDs, the operation will require reconfiguring the host > to mount the new drives, which is a hassle. You can use filesystem labels, they are e

Re: How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:31:07AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Here is the situation. You have machines A->B->C. You want to create a ssh > tunnel directly > from A to C. > > Machine A can see machine B and machine B can see C, but A can't see C > directly. > A and B are on a local network and

How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?

Hi, Here is the situation. You have machines A->B->C. You want to create a ssh tunnel directly from A to C. Machine A can see machine B and machine B can see C, but A can't see C directly. A and B are on a local network and only B has 'limited net access'. I know how to ssh in from A to B and

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

* Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 18 04:18 -0500]: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:43:01 -0500 > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to > > understanding Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in > > th

Re: RAID suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 10:18, Luke S Crawford wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or... don't buy sucky h/w in the first place. If you *really* care >> about your data, you spend the extra bucks for quality h/w that has >> a competent support sta

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 18 17:50 -0500]: > On Tue, March 18, 2008 2:39 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 18 15:09 -0500]: > >> > On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> >> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to underst

Re: [Solved] grep and cron & command line

T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:46 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > > What's happening is the grep you're running is sometimes finding itself. > > That's exactly the reason. As you can see from my script that I've already The lesson is, "ps | grep blah" will find "grep

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

On Mar 18, 9:10 pm, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think he means he wants to map a device node to a device _location_ > not a specific device, which happens by default with ide (ie, hda being > ide primary master). > > using fstab with uuid's would mean that the same physical disk alwa

Re: cron and command quote

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:31:37 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >>> So, '||' is just as legal as '&&' and would do just as it does on the >>> command line, assuming of course there is nothing found by the grep. >>> >>> I don't think the problem is the use of the OR or AND operators. >>> Rather it's the

[Solved] grep and cron & command line

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:46 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >>> Now the crontab reads: >>> >>> * * * * *rootis_burning || logger get executed. >>> >>> + set -x >>> + ps -eaf >>> + grep -E -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' >>> root 15306 15295 0 09:29 ?00:00:00 grep -E cd

Limit X tunnelling

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, on one of my etch machines that heaps of people have access to (via samba within my house and shells over the web) i want to limit X tunnelling to those people on my lan. One solution would be to limit it to the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, which i thin

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Mar 18, 4:00 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should >>> be your >>> friend on that one >> >> I've searched a lot. All

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > SNIP >> well for 2.6.22 you couls also just do a m-a a-i vmware-server-kernel >> and a apt-get install vmware-XXX >> >> my problem was with 2.6.24. >> >> I try and do it with apt if possible > > If you make

Re: Bug#468103: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 19:40:56 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > It looks like the xterm package needs to depend on the xauth package -- > or at least recommend it. > No, this has nothing to do with xterm. openssh-server already suggests xauth (or actually xbase-clients), and documents why in README

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

> > And I gather that the two that posted about not reading it that I > replied to are not in the USA where such a salacious lead-in works all > too well quite often. > I basically clicked on the link, then saw the headline, did a search for the word linux (which I could not find it, btw) and t

Re: Using linux as an audio gateway for bluetooth phone

Micha wrote: Is it possible to stream music from my bluetooth phone (ericson) to my linux box as an audio gateway (have the music sound from my pc speakers)? thanks looks like I was wrong, as the BlueZ site is http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RAID suggestions?

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or... don't buy sucky h/w in the first place. If you *really* care > about your data, you spend the extra bucks for quality h/w that has > a competent support staff behind it. And you pay for an adequate > backup solution! I think most people on this lis

Re: libgconf2 dependencies..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32:00AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> libgconf2-4: Depends: gcon

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Tue, March 18, 2008 2:39 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 18 15:09 -0500]: >> > On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> >> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to understanding >> >> Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in

Re: RAID suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 17:21, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:33:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 03/18/08 16:03, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] > ch

Re: RAID suggestions?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:33:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/18/08 16:03, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >>> changes in HD tech). 6. I have seen d

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 22:39, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 18 15:09 -0500]: > > On Mon, March 17, 2008 10:10 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to > > >> understand

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 18 15:09 -0500]: > On Mon, March 17, 2008 10:10 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to understanding > >> Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in the

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:27:20PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: ... > Perhaps that should be > > s/If women are so weak they can't/If women have better things to do > than/ very likely... > > But I don't really know, just having noticed this subthread right > abotu now, and not sufficiently

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 16:27, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2008-03-18, Ron Johnson penned: >> On 03/18/08 15:05, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> What outcry? Ron's got a point. Seems like all the ladies went to >>> debian-women or something. >> Serena Cantor & Michell

Re: RAID suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:44, Mike Bird wrote: > On Tue March 18 2008 12:56:00 Michael S. Peek wrote: >> But now I'm looking to build replacement servers and I thought I would >> ask what the community uses for it's hardware RAID, and why? > > We use "nothing" f

Re: RAID suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 16:03, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> changes in HD tech). 6. I have seen dozens of catastrophic hardware >>> controller failures with complete data lost a

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On 2008-03-18, Ron Johnson penned: > On 03/18/08 15:05, Paul Johnson wrote: >> What outcry? Ron's got a point. Seems like all the ladies went to >> debian-women or something. > > Serena Cantor & Michelle Konzack are the only two that I can think > of on this list. And debian-women doesn't seem v

Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote: Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 - How I loathe thee

Re: Using linux as an audio gateway for bluetooth phone

Micha wrote: Is it possible to stream music from my bluetooth phone (ericson) to my linux box as an audio gateway (have the music sound from my pc speakers)? thanks I'm just looking for the same thing. Here's a good explanation http://www.think-future.de/wiki/index.php?title=Bluetooth#Build_

Re: RAID suggestions?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] changes in HD tech). 6. I have seen dozens of catastrophic hardware controller failures with complete data lost and not one mdadm failure. That just means you're using

Re: RAID suggestions?

On Tue March 18 2008 12:56:00 Michael S. Peek wrote: > But now I'm looking to build replacement servers and I thought I would > ask what the community uses for it's hardware RAID, and why? We use "nothing" for hardware RAID. Software RAID is much more flexible. With hardware RAID you always need

Re: RAID suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] > changes in HD tech). 6. I have seen dozens of catastrophic hardware > controller failures with complete data lost and not one mdadm failure. That just means you're using sucky hardware. We've bee

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 18, 4:00 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should be your friend on that one I've searched a lot. All the matches I'm getting are about tying device names to specific *drives* or about s

Re: RAID suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 14:56, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello gurus, > > I have built a couple of large storage servers using 16-24 HDDs > connected to 3ware controllers, and so far it's worked pretty well. I > chose 3ware because it was supported by the linux k

Re: RAID suggestions?

Michael S. Peek wrote: Hello gurus, I have built a couple of large storage servers using 16-24 HDDs connected to 3ware controllers, and so far it's worked pretty well. I chose 3ware because it was supported by the linux kernel out of the box. Although I'm not terribly satisfied with the man

Re: Spamassassin and SpamCop

* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 13:04:14 -0700]: > It can and has in the past. SpamCop's terms of service expressly forbid you > from reporting mailing list traffic, spam or not. Thanks. -- Regards, Klein Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is th

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 13:05:00 -0700]: > What outcry? Ron's got a point. Seems like all the ladies went to > debian-women or something. Hmm. Maybe so. -- Regards, Klein When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

On Mar 18, 4:00 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should be your > friend on that one I've searched a lot. All the matches I'm getting are about tying device names to specific *drives* or about solving boot-time issues.

Re: cron and command quote

Jeff D wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Jeff D wrote: || will not return true for you here, ever. you need to use && or use an if statement. Also, if you are going to be using a shell script you have to make sure that it exits properly. I would recommend putting the whole thing into a shell scrip

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 10:02:48 am Klein Moebius wrote: >> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 11:56:47 -0500]: >>> Don't worry. You can count on one hand the number of women on this >>> list, and s

RAID suggestions?

Hello gurus, I have built a couple of large storage servers using 16-24 HDDs connected to 3ware controllers, and so far it's worked pretty well. I chose 3ware because it was supported by the linux kernel out of the box. Although I'm not terribly satisfied with the managing software, the RAI

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 10:02:48 am Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 11:56:47 -0500]: > > Don't worry. You can count on one hand the number of women on this > > list, and still have 3 left over. > > Uh,oh - Let the outcry begin! What outcry? Ron's got a point

Re: Spamassassin and SpamCop

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 11:59:30 am Klein Moebius wrote: > If I enable SpamCop reporting in Spamassassin and subsequently > report a spam message on a mailing list to SpamCop via Spamassasin, > will the mailing list then get a block from SpamCop? It can and has in the past. SpamCop's terms of se

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 20:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have a backup box (running Debian/Etch) with thirteen SATA disks > connected to it: There are numerous threads on how to fix the problem. Google should be your friend on that one Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wireless Configuration Problem

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:06:57 +0200 Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, [snipped thorough details of wireless configuration - my questions are generic.] a) Have you tried connecting without WPA? b) What doesn't work in your setup? Can you ping the AP? Please describe in detail what

Re: Errors installing dansguardian

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 18:40:58 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I am trying to install dansguardian and it won't go. I have tried > renaming and removing file & directories to no avail. What exactly did you do? > I always get

Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

We have a backup box (running Debian/Etch) with thirteen SATA disks connected to it: - four to the on-board controller - seven to an 8-port add-on controller - two to a 2-port add-on controller At reboot the Linux kernel inconsistently numbers "sda,b,c,...": it can start with either of these three.

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, March 17, 2008 10:10 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to understanding >> Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in the article. As >> mentioned earlier in the thread, the sex scandal men

Debian on Thinkpad R61i [Volume buttons]

Hello everybody, I bought Lenovo ThinkPad R61i just week ago and I have some troubles with volume buttons. I've been searching a lot already but I haven't found useful solution yet. I've already tried use tpb, kmilo (there is some progress, when I press up button, it displays 11%, but nothing els

Spamassassin and SpamCop

If I enable SpamCop reporting in Spamassassin and subsequently report a spam message on a mailing list to SpamCop via Spamassasin, will the mailing list then get a block from SpamCop? -- Regards, Klein "I'm willing to sacrifice anything for this cause, even other people's lives." signature.asc

Re: cron and command quote

Bob McGowan wrote: Jeff D wrote: || will not return true for you here, ever. you need to use && or use an if statement. Also, if you are going to be using a shell script you have to make sure that it exits properly. I would recommend putting the whole thing into a shell script: if ps -eaf

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 10:36:19 -0700]: > /me ducks You may have to move to another planet, not just duck! -- Regards, Klein It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman signatur

Re: Detached device and boot auto mount

Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: Hi I have added a IDE/PATA swap rack mount into /etc/fstab. Every time I boot and there is no device in the rack, boot stops (asks to press Ctrl+D or something) after automount detects that there is no hd in rack. Is there a way to prevent this stop?. Tero Mäntyvaara

Re: cron and command quote

Jeff D wrote: T o n g wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:35 +0100, s. keeling wrote: I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas when executed directly under shell: $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' $ /bin/sh -c "

Updated Debian Journalling Filesystems CDs!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Spammers, Thank you very much for your belief in our products. We would like to express our gratitude for your supports in last years. We updated installations of year 2007 for Etch, with no change in price. We also updated some more

Re: cron and command quote

Jeff D wrote: T o n g wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:35 +0100, s. keeling wrote: I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas when executed directly under shell: $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' $ /bin/sh -c "

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:56:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/08 11:27, Klein Moebius wrote: > > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... > >>> > >> Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real > >>

Re: He's probably referring to... (was Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro)

On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:18 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 21:10, steve wrote: >> Jeff D wrote: >> .com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html >> |>> Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. >> |> Same here. I do not know how it is related to Red Hat. >> | um, look a

Re: Having problem with recording voice

Pete Kay wrote: Hi I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio. I have tried many different solutions without success. The error I am getting is : debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav Send break (control-c) to end recording sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource bus

Re: cron and command quote

T o n g wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:35 +0100, s. keeling wrote: I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas when executed directly under shell: $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' $ /bin/sh -c "ps -eaf | grep -E

Re: Apt Database Recovery

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 17:22:52 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I have been getting this when upgrading: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 227, in ? > main() > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 148, in main > seen.close() > File "/usr/lib

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 11:56:47 -0500]: > Don't worry. You can count on one hand the number of women on this > list, and still have 3 left over. Uh,oh - Let the outcry begin! -- Regards, Klein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Re: libgconf2 dependencies..

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32:00AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2-common (>= 2.22) but it is not going to > be installed >Depend

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 11:27, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... >>> >> Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real >> reason he married her. > >

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 09:43:49 -0700]: > In my experience, it is. Working upper management in a small company > some years back, we had to constantly watch what we did because it was > so easy to think just that. This is true. I went through the same thing in

Re: Ssh connection hangs. Ignored ACK packet?

I think I've found out why the TCP hangs: someone messes with TCP sequence numbers and get them wrong. I studied some advanced features of TCP, and discovered the existence of "selective acknowledgment" (SACK), which is a very nice feature, by the way. By comparing packets at the two ends of the

Re: Apt Database Recovery

David Baron: > I have been getting this when upgrading: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 227, in ? > main() > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 148, in main > seen.close() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/__init__.py", line 237, in cl

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:50:46PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: ... > If you follow the article Ron linked to above, special discounts are > apparently subject to the same effect. In a study where people took > supposedly mind-enhancing placebo drinks, people who drank the more > expensive ver

TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

I would like to install Truecrypt on Debian Etch. According to recent posts I have read (see below) there are problems with the new version 5 which means I would like to install version 4.3a. which I am sure will do all I need. However Debian is not one of their supported distros. First proble

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:10:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ... > Back to computers: >We're such a successful company, we can afford to buy Tier 1 kit, >and send all that money to MSFT. And because we do, we *must* >be getting good stuff. > > (If that is, actually, an actual upper

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote: Back to computers: We're such a successful company, we can afford to buy Tier 1 kit, and send all that money to MSFT. And because we do, we *must* be getting good stuff. (If that is, actually, an actual upper-management though process.) "upper management thought pr

Apt Database Recovery

I have been getting this when upgrading: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 227, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 148, in main seen.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/__init__.py", line 237, in close v = self.db.close() b

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... >> >Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real >reason he married her. Shhh! -- Regards, Klein Ever wonder if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Re: cron and command quote

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:38:11PM +, T o n g wrote: > >> $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao > >> *write|growisofs.*speed=' > >> > >> $ /bin/sh -c "ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao > >> *write|growisofs.*speed='" > > * * * * *rootis_burning || logger

Using linux as an audio gateway for bluetooth phone

Is it possible to stream music from my bluetooth phone (ericson) to my linux box as an audio gateway (have the music sound from my pc speakers)? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt.conf or preferences can work in that case?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:49:57PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > I have a question, if I uncomment these lines in my sources.list: > # shame (Uunstable lenny) > #deb > http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./ > # avant-window-navigato

Re: apt.conf or preferences can work in that case?

* Klein Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 09:55:23 -0500]: > * Klein Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 09:36:04 -0500]: > > Sorry, I missed a point. Here's the revision: > > > > > I would get rid of that in apt.conf and go with pinning only. > > Less confusion. > > > > that's co

Re: apt.conf or preferences can work in that case?

* Klein Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 09:36:04 -0500]: Sorry, I missed a point. Here's the revision: > > I would get rid of that in apt.conf and go with pinning only. > Less confusion. > that's correect. > > Here is my sources.list: > > *===* > >

Re: DCHP

Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > and change it to this: > > iface eth0 inet manual > up dhclient3 -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.$IFACE.leases -pf > /var/run/dhclient.$IFACE.pid $IFACE > down kill $(< /var/run/dhclient.$IFACE.pid) Whoops. One problem wi

Re: apt.conf or preferences can work in that case?

* Dvorzhetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 14:49:57 +0100]: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:52:44 -0700, "Daniel Burrows" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40:14PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > #deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unsta

Re: Grub questions

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:51:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html#Do_Really_Need_GRUB_Menu_ >> > > Thank you for the tutorial link. I think that I can take it from > there. Glad that I could help. > Why didn't google get m

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

Alex Samad wrote: SNIP well for 2.6.22 you couls also just do a m-a a-i vmware-server-kernel and a apt-get install vmware-XXX my problem was with 2.6.24. I try and do it with apt if possible If you make a .deb from alien and use dpkg -i, it is as if you are using apt. The packagemanager k

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-17 20:07:02 -0500]: > > *MY* mother was ever so glad to see BOTH Wordstar and WordPerfect > > go. And she bakes better cookies than yours does. > > But probably not better than my wife. > Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies.

apt.conf or preferences can work in that case?

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:52:44 -0700, "Daniel Burrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40:14PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > #deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > Did you mean for that to be commented out?

Re: cron and command quote

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:35 +0100, s. keeling wrote: >> I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas >> when executed directly under shell: >> >> $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' >> >> $ /bin/sh -c "ps -eaf | grep -E

Re: Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

xauth is need on the server I'm on debian and it's part of the package xbase-clients. cheers! -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/debian-user@lists.debian.org/8689320.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] VT's

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:17:10PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > Does anyone know where i can track down a VT in australia? > > Where do you guys find yours? I got mine for $20 off ebay; shipping 300 Kms was $30. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: configuration of a linux router

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:20:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dt> if you don't own peasthope.yi.org, then I wouldn't use it even locally. > > But I do own the machine and the name. OK I, personally, for the 127.0.0.1 would only use localhost and localhost.localdomain > yi.org is a dynamic

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

Adam Hardy on 18/03/08 11:19, wrote: Sven Joachim on 18/03/08 07:51, wrote: There is a new icedove package for stable that may fix the problem, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00088.html. I'm trying out this new build now because I'm also affected by this 'crash a

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

Sven Joachim on 18/03/08 07:51, wrote: There is a new icedove package for stable that may fix the problem, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00088.html. I'm trying out this new build now because I'm also affected by this 'crash after send' bug. There is this issue

Re: Screen resolution amd64 and NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

> > I just installed Debian etch 40r3 on an AMD64 PC. However, screen > resolution is set to 640x480. So is mine and i'm using 1024x768, how far does your monitor go? Did 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' work? -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Install Debian into Fabiatech embedded system

Hi and thanks for reply! On 3/14/08, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:04:23PM +0100, Mirco Piccin wrote: > > Hi all. > > Does anyone never install Debian into embedded system like this one? > > > > > http://www.fabiatech.com/fabia/products/index.php?main_sn=

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Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:43:01 -0500 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to > understanding Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in > the article. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the sex scandal > mentioned only guaran

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 00:02:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 23:12, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > [snip] > > > > Well, I don't about other countries, but in France you can get the new > > office > > 2007 for free from $M. I guess, people are not going to like it? [smile] > > Does $M sta

Re: [OT] VT's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 00:17, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/17/08 22:24, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > My dad would be quite

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