Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-07-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson wrote: > Is that Canadian "burning hot" (80F), Arizona "burning hot" (115F, > 10% humidity) or New Orleans "burning hot" (90F, 60% humidity)? I'm in canada, and it's 32C which according to google is new orleans hot but i have no idea about the humidity... > Anyway, why in God's name

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 00:29, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I want to set up a workstation in my back yard. I know it probably involves an umbrella and a laptop, and a power extension cable. I think that the laptop overheating may be a concern. Even with an umbrella, I'm worried that glare may be an issue too.

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
By real dos computer I mean a different machine with msdos 6.22 installed on it that was connected to the printer through its parallel port and the file was copied to a floppy disk and printed from that floppy disk on the other machine. The other machine hasn't enough resources to install wind

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:22:51PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage > on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux > and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos > computer

What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-07-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I want to set up a workstation in my back yard. I know it probably involves an umbrella and a laptop, and a power extension cable. I think that the laptop overheating may be a concern. Even with an umbrella, I'm worried that glare may be an issue too. Can any of you share how you have successfully

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Suno Ano
Thierry> Oupss sorry, did not see that your link was the same as mine. Thierry> Then is it possible that you machine can't boot from usb Thierry> device? Thierry Well, if he alters the boot order from the BIOS so the machine boots From USB before the disk, everything should work fine; below is

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-31 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear Kamaraju > I am making use of the PuTTY Release 0.51 . Can you please let me know > where is that "Enabling X11 forwarding" ? > Regards > H.Motamedi putty -> ssh -> X11 -> check the "Enable X11 Forwarding" box. All this is explained in putty documentation which can be

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-31 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Kamaraju I am making use of the PuTTY Release 0.51 . Can you please let me know where is that "Enabling X11 forwarding" ? Regards H.Motamedi On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi < raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > hadi motamedi wrote: > > > Dear All > > Can you pleas

Re: mutt's tag command - Was: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-31 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:53:39AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones > > > was heard to say: > > > > [..] > > > > >

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-31 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:33:56PM +0800, debuser wrote: > В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: > > Dear All > > Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to > > be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection > > opened from the MS W

Re: my initramds won't activate my encrypted root fs, although debian's work

2009-07-31 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:22:39PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm at my wit's end over this, after much googling and grappling with > the problem for hours. Hi I am having a similar problem but with the stock debian kernels. What i have found helpful is the kernel option break, you could tr

my initramds won't activate my encrypted root fs, although debian's work

2009-07-31 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm at my wit's end over this, after much googling and grappling with the problem for hours. I recently reinstalled Debian on my laptop, since I wanted to move to whole disk encryption, and although I could have done it without reinstalling (by moving the system off to my external HDD, which

Re: can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-07-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:38:41 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: >> This is in testing (currently squeeze, I believe). >> >> I log in using gdm. My default window manager is icewm. I click on the >> little square icon on the bar at the bottom (the one that >> says "XTerm" in a white box when I hover the no

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-31 16:01, PaulNM wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:22 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Jude DaShiell wrote: >Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage >on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux >and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos >computer? I have a printer queue set up which allows

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread PaulNM
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:22 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage > on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux > and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos > computer? I hav

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread John Hasler
Stefan writes: > Do you really think that botnets can only run their servers on port 80? I said nothing about port numbers. > In any case, in the quoted paragraph, I'm not talking about blocking > ports, but about contract clauses that say "thou shalt not run a > server". Which let an ISP block

[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Mark
Thanks for the replies. Debian has this uncanny ability to make me feel like an idiot. :) # install-mbr /dev/sdX* *didn't work for me (with the mbr package installed), however I saw there is a "Manage Flags" option in GParted that did. Just stumbled on that about 5 minutes ago. :) Computer n

dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-07-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos computer? I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to print g

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Oupss sorry, did not see that your link was the same as mine. Then is it possible that you machine can't boot from usb device? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
What about starting from here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en and following the howto. Never failed for me. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread John Haggerty
I checked the prices here http://www.qwest.net/help/static_ips.html#howmuch it seems that we are looking at the following *# of IP Addresses**Monthly Rate**One Time Charge* 1 (1 useable)$5.95$25.00 8 (5 useable)$14.95$50.00 16 (13 useable)$29.95$75.00 32 (29 useable)$59.95 $150.00 64 (61 useabl

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread John Haggerty
I guess based on the feedback so far (which I think is good for a worse case scenario) what I am wondering if replacing the switches with routers would do anything about getting access to the system? On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> To me disallowing running servers is

Re: [OT] minimum gzip compression

2009-07-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm trying to tune compression for my httpd. My default it'll gzip any > (specified type of) file regardless of its size. However, very small > files will probaly end up being bigger than the original (a 1B file > becomes 25B). Is there an average minimum size from which to gzip? > Assuming all f

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> To me disallowing running servers is pretty close to the issue of >> net-neutrality, so I prefer to stay away from such ISPs. > It isn't usually the customer who is running a server: he doesn't know > what it is. It's the botnet herder who controls the machine that runs > the servers. As long

Re: debian package creation: how to specify a version range in Depends: field

2009-07-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-31 16:34 +0200, Peter Van Biesen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm building a package that depends on another package but this package needs > to be a in a specific version range. > > My package "A" depends on package "B" but the version of B needs to be 10.* . > > I tried > Depends: B(>>10.0), B(

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090731124204.gw7...@keuner.winnegan.fake>, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:53 PM, frank wrote: > >> > Check out the menu.lst file. > >> > >> Who

Re: debian package creation: how to specify a version range in Depends: field

2009-07-31 Thread Tiago Saboga
What about Depends: B(>=10.0) Conflicts: B(>=11.0) ? Cheers, Tiago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RE: udev warning message on Debian 5.0

2009-07-31 Thread Kushal Koolwal
>Either use a Live CD or add init=/bin/bash to the kernel commandline > to make it accessible. Doing init=/bin/bash mount -o rw,remount / rm -rf /dev/.udev/ worked fine! Thank you very much guys. You rock. Kushal Koolwal I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/ __

Re: Reportbug not reporting bugs

2009-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:47:01 +0200 Omar Campagne wrote: > I don't know if it's just some missing configuration on my behalf, > yet I find no more than what is already explained at the debian > website. I googled, yet found nothing useful for my particular issue. > man reportbug doesn't show me an

Re: Building Arora deb

2009-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Patrick Wiseman wrote: >On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Pobega > wrote: >> On 0, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> > The debuild command is part of the devscripts package; apt-file might >>> > help you to find that out yourself in

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a731c61.3080...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> 3. Lines starting with a single '#' are comments in C *unless* the '#' >> is immediately followed by a pre-processor command. This is similar -- >> you can think of update-grub as a GRUB menu.lst pre-processor

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread S Scharf
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mark wrote: > That's what "syslinux /dev/sdX1" does yes? I followed the > instructions verbatim, if more needs to be done let me know. > > To quote from http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexibleand 4.3.3. Booting the USB stick

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Mark
That's what "syslinux /dev/sdX1" does yes? I followed the instructions verbatim, if more needs to be done let me know. Mark On 7/31/09, S Scharf wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Mark wrote: > >> I hadn't tried to make a bootable Lenny usb memory stick in a few months >> and now cannot

Re: question about email delivery triggered by resent thread on musings

2009-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:45:56 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > Also while researching the situation for this email, I notice that > Robert Holtzman's reply to Ron Johnson's email has a time-stamp that > is *prior* to the time-stamp of Ron's email. A reply that is sent > before the referenced email?? H

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread S Scharf
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Mark wrote: > I hadn't tried to make a bootable Lenny usb memory stick in a few months > and now cannot seem to make the stick bootable by following the instructions > here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexibleand > using

UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Mark
I hadn't tried to make a bootable Lenny usb memory stick in a few months and now cannot seem to make the stick bootable by following the instructions here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexibleand using the files here http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenn

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread Cousin Stanley
>> John Haggerty wrote: >> I would ask would a static ip really be able >> to allow the machines to reach the outer network? > Why not? As long as the outer fixed IP is routable > which it would be. > > OTOH dyndns.org and others provide a way to tell > the outside world what your

Re: Building Arora deb

2009-07-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Pobega wrote: > On  0, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> > On 2009-07-30 23:41 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> > >> >> I just downloaded the source for Arora (a webkit-based browser) >> >> because the versio

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Bob McGowan
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090731124204.gw7...@keuner.winnegan.fake>, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:53 PM, frank wrote: Check out the menu.lst file. >>> Whoa! I didn't know text hidden in those comments

Re: networking woes + headaches

2009-07-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 31 Jul 2009, Aioanei Rares wrote: Issue two : -maybe it would be easier for you to install network-manager. Even better, install wicd, which does essentially the same thing, but actually works and doesn't seem to cause as many problems as network-manager. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090731124204.gw7...@keuner.winnegan.fake>, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:53 PM, frank wrote: >> > Check out the menu.lst file. >> >> Whoa! I didn't know text hidden in those comments are actually in-use. They aren'

Re: networking woes + headaches

2009-07-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:36:24AM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > good morning list, im having some network connection issues that i > hope i can resolve here without too much pain. > > issue 1, im on a laptop and sometimes i forget to plug in my ethernet > wire. if i connect after login i can

Re: networking woes + headaches

2009-07-31 Thread Aioanei Rares
frank wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:48 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: -as root : /etc/init.d/networking start Issue two : -maybe it would be easier for you to install network-manager. Maybe... The first think I remove on my ubuntu boxes is the network-manager, because it do thinks wi

Re: Building Arora deb

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-07-30 23:41 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > >> I just downloaded the source for Arora (a webkit-based browser) > >> because the version available to me through aptitude doesn't like my > >> ELF64 s

Re: networking woes + headaches

2009-07-31 Thread frank
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:48 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > -as root : /etc/init.d/networking start > > Issue two : > > -maybe it would be easier for you to install network-manager. Maybe... The first think I remove on my ubuntu boxes is the network-manager, because it do thinks without notifying

Re: networking woes + headaches

2009-07-31 Thread Aioanei Rares
jeremy jozwik wrote: good morning list, im having some network connection issues that i hope i can resolve here without too much pain. issue 1, im on a laptop and sometimes i forget to plug in my ethernet wire. if i connect after login i cannot browse the internet. the network connection lists e

networking woes + headaches

2009-07-31 Thread jeremy jozwik
good morning list, im having some network connection issues that i hope i can resolve here without too much pain. issue 1, im on a laptop and sometimes i forget to plug in my ethernet wire. if i connect after login i cannot browse the internet. the network connection lists eth1 as idle and sometim

debian package creation: how to specify a version range in Depends: field

2009-07-31 Thread Peter Van Biesen
Hi, I'm building a package that depends on another package but this package needs to be a in a specific version range. My package "A" depends on package "B" but the version of B needs to be 10.* . I tried Depends: B(>>10.0), B(<<11.0) Depends: B(>>10.0,<<11.0) Depends: B(=10.*) Both just inst

Re: Problem using deb install

2009-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:43:08 +1000 Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am building a new laptop, I downloaded the daily build debian > installer, i choose the encrypted lvm option, problem is when it reboots > it can't find the rootfs, i have to wait till it times out and then do a > cryptsetup -T1 luk

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:57:28 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > That's true. But at least around where I live, those ISPs that > offer static IPs for a small surcharge are smaller, cheaper, and > offer better service. Then again, those tend to not filter any > ports even with dynamic IPs, so you wou

[OT] minimum gzip compression

2009-07-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I'm trying to tune compression for my httpd. My default it'll gzip any (specified type of) file regardless of its size. However, very small files will probaly end up being bigger than the original (a 1B file becomes 25B). Is there an average minimum size from which to gzip? Assuming all

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:15 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Stefan writes: > > To me disallowing running servers is pretty close to the issue of > > net-neutrality, so I prefer to stay away from such ISPs. > > It isn't usually the customer who is running a server: he doesn't know > what it is. It's

Problem using deb install

2009-07-31 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am building a new laptop, I downloaded the daily build debian installer, i choose the encrypted lvm option, problem is when it reboots it can't find the rootfs, i have to wait till it times out and then do a cryptsetup -T1 luksOpen /dev/sda2 sda2_crypt and then a scan for the lvm pv / vg and

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:53 PM, frank wrote: > > > > > Check out the menu.lst file. > > > > > > ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs > > > > ## ## Start Default Options ## > > ## default kernel options > > ## default ker

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread John Hasler
Stefan writes: > To me disallowing running servers is pretty close to the issue of > net-neutrality, so I prefer to stay away from such ISPs. It isn't usually the customer who is running a server: he doesn't know what it is. It's the botnet herder who controls the machine that runs the servers.

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:08 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 14:18 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It seems to me that every time I do some upgrade via apt-get, maybe it's > > > kernel upgrades, my menu

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:08 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 14:18 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It seems to me that every time I do some upgrade via apt-get, maybe it's > > > kernel upgrades, my menu

Re: How to make from source debian package?

2009-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-31 03:43, Csanyi Pal wrote: Brian writes: On Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 16:00:16 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: tarballs, or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packa

Re: detect ramtype

2009-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-31 03:26, Kousik Maiti wrote: you can use *lshw* command. In my case this is the part of memory output *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 25 slot: System board or motherboard size: 1GiB capacity: 1GiB *-bank:0

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-31 Thread Aioanei Rares
Mark wrote: Interesting thread. From a Debian/Linux and Debian email list newbie's perspective: I spent several months researching Debian (actually tried openSUSE before Debian), printing/reading manuals, wiki's, doing multiple installations trying different options and configurations, /befor

live video streaming

2009-07-31 Thread Consultores Agropecuarios
Hello, i use Lenny amd64 Does somebody could please tell me how, or give me a link to a tutorial or how to, to do live video streaming? I have tried icecast2 and vlc; vlc shows the error "Unable to open 'v4l://'", but the webcam works well with Ekiga. Icecast2 can not start when i do /etc/init.d/i

mutt's tag command - Was: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones > > was heard to say: > > [..] > > > > The only thing I find "frustrating" about mutt is that it is impossible > >

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday July 31 2009 12:18:28 am Timothy Wu wrote: > It seems to me that every time I do some upgrade via apt-get, maybe it's > kernel upgrades, my menu.lst entries changes from /dev/sda1 to /dev/hda1. > As a result, the system don't find the disk. It occurs to me like three > times already. Why

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Timothy Wu
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:53 PM, frank wrote: > > Check out the menu.lst file. > > > ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs > > ## ## Start Default Options ## > ## default kernel options > ## default kernel options for automagic boot options > ## If you want special options for s

Re: How to make from source debian package?

2009-07-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Brian writes: > On Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 16:00:16 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official >> repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: >> tarballs, or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packages for the >> Lenny. > > If th

ejabberd increased memory needs since erlang update

2009-07-31 Thread defa
hi! i am running a ejabberd on a small-sized system. the ejabberd package status is: jabber:~# dpkg --status ejabberd Package: ejabberd Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 3224 Maintainer: Torsten Werner Architecture: i386 Version: 2.0.5-1.1 Depends: a

RE: can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-07-31 Thread Kevin Ross
> This is in testing (currently squeeze, I believe). > > I log in using gdm. My default window manager is icewm. > I click on the little square icon on the bar at the bottom > (the one that > says "XTerm" in a white box when I hover the nouse over it), > and nothing > happens. > > I do this

Re: detect ramtype

2009-07-31 Thread Kousik Maiti
you can use *lshw* command. In my case this is the part of memory output *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 25 slot: System board or motherboard size: 1GiB capacity: 1GiB *-bank:0 description: DIMM DRAM Synchron

detect ramtype

2009-07-31 Thread michal krajcirovic
Hi, I need to determine the type of RAM in the server, I could add more. Is it a program that know what memory is currently in the server, without it I had to disassemble? Dmidecode command output, although the size of RAM, etc., but find out what it's slot, etc. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread Timothy Wu
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 14:18 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems to me that every time I do some upgrade via apt-get, maybe it's > > kernel upgrades, my menu.lst entries changes from /dev/sda1 to /dev/hda1. > As > > a result,

Re: menu.lst problem

2009-07-31 Thread frank
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 14:18 +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > > It seems to me that every time I do some upgrade via apt-get, maybe > it's kernel upgrades, my menu.lst entries changes from /dev/sda1 > to /dev/hda1. As a result, the system don't find the disk. It occurs > to me like three times already.