Re: Python

2012-02-01 Thread Chris Brennan
to function adequitly in Python2.7 o you can just skip to the 4th edition (4e) which covers Python2.6 and Python3.x. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149

Re: sbin

2012-01-01 Thread Chris Brennan
This was intended for the list but accidentally got sent to only lina. -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net Date: Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM Subject: Re: sbin To: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:42 AM, lina lina.lastn

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
alternatives that offer this rather traditional layout... -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8

OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
a part of emergeDesktop's community, I know the author their has instructed the community to not download his software from download.com, I'm not sure what steps have been taken for paint.net and VLC though. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow

Re: [OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

2011-12-07 Thread Chris Brennan
on your phone will get put into this group, GMail will also attempt to guess what contacts you use the most and star them for you as well. I have to go back into that group and un-star quite a few contacts because GMail has needlessly starred them for no good/logical reason. -- Chris Brennan

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread Chris Brennan
this grep instead? cat /var/log/Xorg.log.0 | grep -e (WW) -e (EE) This will grep for all errors *AND* warnings. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149

Re: Booting into DOS [SOLVED]

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
)' chainloader +1 } You can check DOS is on /dev/sda1 using 'cfdisk /dev/sda'. file -s /dev/sda (as root) will also show you what the partition/drive is, but that's trivial, as long as it works for you. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Brennan
-for product. Stephen, my goal here was not to split hairs with you but to illustrate the differences between LastPass and KeePass at a cursory level for the OP, who expressed not understanding the difference between the two. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
among the XMarks users about a premium only service, I know the friends that I have gotten to use XMarks and I voted no. XMarks essentially remained the same, but that can change at any time. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Brennan
, it can also fill in browser fields for you. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Brennan
under active development and I've never had any real problems with it. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741

Bind9 (9.7.4)

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Brennan
named. [RT #24777] [CVE-2011-2464] BIND 9.7.4 Released on 01 Aug 2011 -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741

Re: Bind9 (9.7.4)

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Hello, Chris Brennan a écrit : I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance on IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a latent bug in the DNS message

Re: p7zip buggy?

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Brennan
290MB 300*2=600 which =! 580MB, that might be where your problem is coming up. p7zip might not be handeling the simple math correctly. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84

Re: p7zip buggy?

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Brennan
is ~4.1 MiB and the above command creates two volumes (2 files) of 3 MiB and 848.2 KiB of size respectively, which I think is correct :-? Camaleon, What version of p7zip is in wheezy? Are you possibly using a different version then what is provided in the wheezy repo? -- Chris Brennan A: Yes

Re: p7zip buggy?

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Brennan
using the 64-bit version, as noted by the [64] in square brackets. I would like to see which version Camaleon is using to compare, it very well might be a bug in the arch's and not the version. So it's good to make note of the version and arch. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Brennan
to comment, then move the cursor to the last row I want commented and type: :'a,.s/^/# /g You can do something similar in visual mode as well, I don't remember exactly how though. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top

Re: help

2011-09-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, neo haux neo.h...@gmx.com wrote: Blank emails don't go far. How about you start off by giving us an idea of what it is you want help with. If it's hardware related, a basic profile of your system would be in order as well. -- -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q

Re: apt-build issues

2011-09-18 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:59:13 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: So I decided to try and play with apt-build and I got the following which I can't seem to solve or figure out how to solve lol (...) I don't know how apt-build

apt-build issues

2011-09-17 Thread Chris Brennan
(malformed Release file?) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. root@Blackdragon:~# Any idea's cause I'm stumped! -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting

Re: OT - Frequency of unsolicited emails

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Brennan
} debian-users gentoo-users are the most active lists I am on, then a handful of independent projects have me on their mailing lists too, most with moderate traffic on it. It could be that you specifically have been targeted or possibly your ISP, based on an IP Block... -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Chris Brennan
if they might have some better idea's just remember that ftp is plain-text and as such, insecure... If your security-conscience then sshfs or sftp/scp might be a wiser choice (just remember that you loose speed for encryption, so it's a comprimise!) -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure

Re: installing root-kit checkers

2011-09-09 Thread Chris Brennan
should be the first tool installed and keep good, *known clean* sources handy to copy to knew machines as the first thing they do after being installed. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Brennan
Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ hth -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB

Re: Holiday Project for my job

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Brennan
needed. [1]http://www.clonezilla.org -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Brennan
apply in my case. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-28 Thread Chris Brennan
a nice weekend watching her/his home be blown to bits or damaged, badly flooded etc. and possibly most of his/her possessions being destroyed?! Lisi Haha no worries Lisi, this weekend is shot to hell. 0330, NYC-Time, off to bed now... (the worst is coming in now) -- Chris Brennan

Re: Most Perplexing

2011-08-28 Thread Chris Brennan
://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ Put this on line one of your little script #!/usr/bin/env sh save it and rerun it. This will tell the script what shell to use to execute the commands. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Chris Brennan
the three I initially mentioned. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-27 Thread Chris Brennan
Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Brennan
. On the rare chance that I did, Seagate was quick to get me a new drive ASAP. P.S. I have never heard of GoFlex for a hard-drive manufacturer ... toddles off to google ... ahh I see, GoFlex is Seagates line of external drives (I don't use them so I had no idea...) -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes

Re: [OT] 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Brennan
80GB all the way to 1TB. Probably cause you've joined the dark side ? :P We have cookies. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Brennan
cheap. 11 drives over the last 6-8mo for approximately $80-$100USD+Shipping. So yea, I personally, would highly recommend Seagate's, either internal or external. Best value for what ever your buck is. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Brennan
with. The one thing to keep in mind is laptops, all the hard-drives are accessible but in different ways, my HP and my gf's AlienWare laptops are very easy to get to, my old Dell Latitude required me to jump though many hoops and a torx screw driver ultimately fixed my problem there. -- Chris Brennan

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Brennan
. It could also mean that one or more SATA ports or attached drives may be faulty. I would check cables and such first. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Brennan
a Debian fan, which is why I sit on this mailing list. I'm also a long-time fan of Slackware, although I haven't used it in many years. So be kind, don't flame me :D -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting

Re: GLX Missing

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Brennan
intel glx drivers. Thanks for any advice, -- rbmj Try changing your xorg.conf to reflect the intel driver vs the nvidia one, I would remove the nvidia gpu driver all together unless you need it for some reason. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Brennan
changed since then... -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Brennan
much prefer if my host would offer FreeBSD as I am more familiar with that as a server. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549

Re: Problems ejecting cd.

2011-08-06 Thread Chris Brennan
neat new places? -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C

Re: [left blank]

2011-08-04 Thread Chris Brennan
alternative if you don't want to dual-boot or use a whole system is to use a Virtual Machine such as VirtualBox[1] [1]http://www.virtualbox.org -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com

Re: pls respond asap

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Brennan
as that historical reference becomes tainted. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A

Re: Has KFTPGrabber gone viral

2011-07-28 Thread Chris Brennan
mail client has gone wonky for some reason. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8

Re: Do I own an unsupported optical IDE drive?

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Brennan
time, Horace. Could you provide the make/model of the optical drive in question as well as the output of lspci? -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http

Re: 32bit vs 64bit

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Brennan
(upgrade wise). While not a guru, but a power user, this is something I would only attempt to do in a VM and then, only to prove it can't be done. Sanely. But this is just my $0.02 :D -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why

Re: Trinity site offline?

2011-07-16 Thread Chris Brennan
On 7/15/2011 10:11 PM, shawn wilson wrote: 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 ARIN Direct allocation to Level3 Communications. if they don't know, then TrinityDesktop.org's dns entries were removed from their DNS Servers for what ever reason, but it appears it's back online now. -- Chris Brennan

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On 7/11/2011 2:55 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 07/10/11 at 03:09pm, mark wrote: I think the last time I was annoyed about such a change was when you couldn't get floppy drives anymore.. Wait! So you can't get floppy drives anymore!?! :P -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Brennan
reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kernel likely changed during your upgrade and the driver needs to have his kernel module recompiled against the new kernel version. Try that and report back. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q

Re: Unread bug reports ?

2011-06-25 Thread Chris Brennan
on This is all decided by the Ports System committee and doesn't happen over night. There is ample time for people to be properly notified and for them to find a new maintainer amungst themselves or elsewhere or for people to move off/away from that port. Just my $0.02 :D -- Chris

Re: posting

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Brennan
they desire. -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Brennan
* Philipp ??berbacher hollun...@lavabit.com [2011-06-13 11:27:57 +0200]: Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200: What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I have to

[debian.li...@home.nl: Re: broadcom: SOLVED]

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Brennan
- Forwarded message from steef debian.li...@home.nl - Redirected back to list so it can be archived. Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:39:46 +0200 From: steef debian.li...@home.nl To: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net Subject: Re: broadcom: SOLVED Chris Brennan schreef: * steefdebian.li

Re: broadcom

2011-06-11 Thread Chris Brennan
* steef debian.li...@home.nl [2011-06-11 15:32:00 +0200]: hi list, bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very strong accu, 10 hours of life. What's 'accu'? i put sid on an usb-stick, included fluxbox and wicd(-curses). wifi = (lspci) brcm4313. (type 5.60.350.6)

Re: broadcom

2011-06-11 Thread Chris Brennan
* Freeman hew...@gmail.com [2011-06-11 14:51:32 -0700]: You need broadcom-sta. Read here http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=namessuite=allsection=allkeywords=broadcom-sta # apt-get install broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source module-assistant +make debhelper quilt bzip2 I

Re: unable to enumerate usb device on port 5

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Brennan
* Camale?n noela...@gmail.com [2011-06-10 10:25:46 +]: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0530, Rohit Vaidya wrote: I have just installed Debian Squeeze successfully. On boot up I get the following message constantly dumped on the console. Whenever I try to access the virtual terminal it

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* prad p...@towardsfreedom.com [2011-06-06 09:23:08 -0700]: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I think that all mails came through the

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/01/11 at 06:46pm, Chris Brennan wrote: While I suspect the answer to this is no, does gmail have a feature such as this? All I see now is reply/forward/reply-all, but no group reply... Not that I know

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like an official bug, then let me know. This sounds like you might want to contact

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I think that all mails came through the list, but there were tons of: From: webmas...@debianhelp.org The email you sent to ... was rejected because there was a validation error. I got this too, it was addressed

Re: received sms possible or not with debian ??

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:16 PM, thuillier-charmet thuillierchar...@illogal.net wrote: At the moment i have a free mail box where i can received fax or voice message with an intermdiate of free phone number. i wish to received a sms on this mail box (without bought a mobil) when someone like

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: [snip] My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) The Pentium II max clockspeed was 233-450MHz are you sure it's not a P4? (PIII clockspeeds are 400Mhz to 1.4GHz.) So if it's a 2GHz CPu then it's got to be a P4. It

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:04 AM, David Parker dpar...@utica.edu wrote: Was your onboard serial port disabled in the BIOS at the time you installed Debian? If it was, then the first port on your serial card should be mapped to /dev/ttyS0. If not, then udev may have picked up the onboard port

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: 115200 is a bit high speed rate, for testing I would lower that value and once it works, you can play with this. Yeah, it is high, that was just my last change, I started at the typical 9600, went to 19200, 38400 and then

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing telinit q, or at least

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) OTOH, /etc

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: I'm sorry! That was a very significant typo! I have a P4, not a P2. Also, not raid disk. No worries, I'm just surprised no one else picked up on it sooner lol. Also, Mem: 1555440k Swap: 6168868k so that's ~1.5GB in

Serial Console Access

2011-05-22 Thread Chris Brennan
I've embarked on the trial and error process of setting up a serial console on my Debian 6 machine. So far, the configuration has been pretty straight forward. As a reference point I used the following two websites http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-serial-console-on-debian-linux/

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphonedo you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:57 AM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: I would interject that Blackberrys are widely considered Smartphones, in fact really being the first of the bread, but only one Blackberry Model contained a touch screen interface... Really doubt they could support debian,

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson ryperven...@yahoo.frwrote: In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, but I am seeing that it has more of a use in Debian. If I was not meant to

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Tom Allison t...@tacocat.net wrote: This just got harder. I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. And the installation media can only be a USB drive. I am having all kinds of trouble getting an ISO image onto the USB that

Re: Waking from the Dead

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote: Hi -- The instructions I used don't seem to have that requirement -- you just need dd, which Macs can do, I think. According to my (slightly dated, and possibly fragmentary) notes, I got boot.img.gz from:

Re: How to use serial ports?

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Tapio Lehtonen tapio.lehto...@dnainternet.net wrote: Did not check BIOS for port settings, I supposed ports are enabled since dmesg and setserial show the port. root@phb:~# dmesg | grep -i tty [0.00] console [tty0] enabled [1.072850] serial8250:

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: +20 Oh and as far as that thing I said about having Cred, Camaleón assist more people on this list than just about anyone, so he's got Cred. Pick your battles a bit wiser. TeddyB I have tried (rather well) to steer

Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM, PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: Actually Re: Posting Style (nevermind a new thread): It seems to me that bottom-posting is for people who want to read in one direction, while top-posting is for people who want to see the current message immediately. I

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:53 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: Ahhh, I read threads like this on reddit (and other online forums) when I'm bored or just want to cringe at something. I never thought the likes of that would reach this list. This thread has been nothing but hysterical

Re: I am not receiving my discussion mail.

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 20:53:14 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: Please reply me, let me test, whether I am getting reply of email or not.. Are you using Gmail's smtp service? If yes, it's normal you don't get your own

Re: Loss of connectivity on recent testing updates

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey list Sometime over the last 9 days I have updated my testing desktop system and when I went to reboot the theme settings on Gnome had changed and I am unable to access the Internet. My partner's machine - from

Some way to restrict what apt-get/aptitude installs

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Brennan
I've a headless server running Debian 6 and I am curious if there is a way to restrict what gets pulled in Example #1 Gentoo: USE=-X will effectively stop all X/X-related libs from being installed and the package manager there will fail, telling you why. Example #2 FreeBSD: X=NO

Re: [OT] What SmartPhone for a FreeTard??? [Was: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?]

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Roger Morgan halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, there's the Openmoko Freerunner: http://www.openmoko.com/freerunner.html It's clunky and buggy, but it's free as in freedom, and it's usable as a cellphone, just. It also only appears to be sold from half a

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: I'd love to see data for 2.6.32 (Squeeze) and 2.6.38 (Wheezy/Sid). I have Squeeze running XFS ontop of LVM2, if I can do something to contribute to this, let me know -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A:

Re: In Debian GNU(Linux), you own phone. - Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:29 AM, giovanni_re john...@fastmail.us wrote: I'm guessing you're probably not running Debian GNU(Linux) on your phone. ;) If you were, it would be _you_ who is in control of your phone. ;) That's why I'm working to get Smartphone Debian (SD) going. :) I'm

Re: file systems

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:08 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: [snip] No worries, couldn't hurt to read up on CDDL[1], *BSD[2] Licences and GNU/GPL [3]. As for your general Filesystem needs, XFS or XFS-LVM is probably the smart way to go

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Jose Legido j...@legido.com wrote: On 04/28/2011 02:01 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: Reposting to the list, OP, obey REPLY-TO headers or use 'Reply All'. Excuse me I forget it It's all good :D [snip] post the output of the following commands mount I

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jose Legido j...@legido.com wrote: Based on what I see, I am going to take a stab in the dark here. It looks like you originally had an Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot setup, is this correct? Then you tried for a tripple-boot setup of Ubuntu/WIndows/Debian, correct?

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jose Legido j...@legido.com wrote: Hello I had windows with ntfs I installed ubuntu. All ok. Gurb with 2 os, can ran windows and uvuntu and can mount windows partition in ubuntu I installed debian with lvm over ubuntu partition. I can't mount windows

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Brennan
Reposting to the list, OP, obey REPLY-TO headers or use 'Reply All'. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Jose Legido j...@legido.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jose Legido j...@legido.com wrote: Hello I

Re: file systems

2011-04-25 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 04/25/2011 02:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 4/25/2011 1:25 AM: On 04/19/2011 05:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] XFS beats EXT4 hands down in nearly every category, Including not being

Re: list all the devices connected to the router

2011-04-24 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I connect my PCs to internet via Verizon DSL router. When I go to 192.168.1.1 in a browser (say firefox), I am able to see all the computers connected to this router. However, from command line is there

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:21 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2011 3:28 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: prad p...@towardsfreedom.com writes: are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. i'm

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:44 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net writes: CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun Microsystems and is now Oracle. sorry my mistake for thinking zfs was bsd (even after you said

Re: file systems

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:45, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: we are thinking of redoing our existing servers and workstations in june. our servers is low volume and run out of our home via cable. right now

Re: file systems

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: If it makes any difference to you, I _think_ that there's a windows program that will read ext3; I know it will read ext2. I haven't heard of one that reads ext4. If you don't care about windows, ext4 seems to work fine.

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: another thing about times changing - virtuals are great. download some popular distros (don't limit yourself to linux either). i'd suggest debian, fedora, centos, ubuntu, and freebsd. then get virtual box and have fun.

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Peter Beck pe...@datentraeger.li wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:53 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: You'll need VMWare or VirtualBox (VBox is free but because it's not s/not/now (Dyslexia first thing in the morning caught me off guard :D) Oracle owned, it's

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Matthews cont...@jpluscplusm.com wrote: They got borged by Oracle, IIRC, leaving them with at least 3 different virtual platforms: virtualbox, solaris zones, virtual iron. Ooo, and maybe one more whose name escapes me. They also bought up Q-Layer, who

Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? I use Debian 6 amd64. Searching online led me to this:

Re: [OT] English language

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Brennan
Plz 2 invades ur werdz insteadz! P.S. While this meant to be funny and light-hearted, in reality, not all of us Americans are stupid, dumb rednecks who eye their cousins and farm animals. -- Sent from my Droid (sorry for the top post) On Apr 4, 2011 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister

aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Chris Brennan
My laptop was off for about a week and when I fired it up today, I ran an update and then an upgrade on my squeeze install and today I noticed this [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: apache2.2-bin bind9-host dnsutils gdm3 google-chrome-stable

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