On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'm sure
>
> But isn't that 9" monitor a VT520?
>
No. The
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:05:16PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote:
> If you want to do a lot of text manipulation, it may feel more natural
> to use Perl (or at least it feels more natural to me).
Or Python. Or Ada.
Almost anything but sh.
Doug.
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most
>
> Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more
> in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:20:21AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate
> WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do wit
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to
> > install 'recommends',
>
> If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should onl
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:20:55PM +0200, Rody wrote:
>
> In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my
> packages
> with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys
> are not available on:
> www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/
After keys a
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I've recently installed a 32-bit chroot on a 64-bit system with the
> "--arch=i386" flag to debootstrap, but I can't quite figure out how apt
> knows that I want to continue downloading i386 debs instead of amd64
> debs. Where is thi
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> the benefit to Andrei's method (which I use as well **) is that you
> don't have to change windows or wait for a browser to start up (well,
> okay, technically you do...). The html just pops up rendered right in
> the frame.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:01:33PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often happens
> that the download sticks before it is complete.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to solve
> it? And, why does i
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:03:26AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:36:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > When you mount the filesystem, are all the standard options active or
> > do you mount it noatime? I don't know if it matters.
&g
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old
> virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a
> banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
Why does your crystal ball work as a mirror?
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/11/08 06:57, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 05/10/08 10:07, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I'm sure
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:02:12PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP
> addresses. Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the
> db ips and server ips.
>
> Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:02:09PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> I have just noticed that syslog on my firewall contains
> hundreds if not thousands of messages like this.
>
> Do they indicate an error of some kind?
>
> If not, how do I turn them off?
>
> kernel: BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT=
> MAC
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:37:37PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > > > > *
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:15:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/10/08 17:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >>
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-05-10 09:18 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>
> > I know that dpkg takes steps to unlink files without actually deleting
> > them during an upgrade, so your suggestion makes some sense, but I'm not
> > quite sure why the system w
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 05/09/08 07:33, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > I use Linux because it is the most
> > > stable and secure OS available in my opinion.
> > I'm sure the {Free|Open}BSD
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:34:31PM +0200, Kum Gabor wrote:
> On Saturday 10 May 2008 12:23, thveillon.debian wrote:
> > Kum Gabor a ??crit :
> > > I need a little help with setting up a new network card:
> > > I changed mainboard in my computer, and I have new integrated network
> > > card, works w
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:02:24PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> I just looked at an OS-X machine for the first time. It costs about
> >> four times what a comparable machine that I build myself would cost.
> >
> > But it's more polished than GNOME or KD
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem?
>
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:06:39PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/5/9 Jordi Guti??rrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Lots of proprietary software is available for Linux.
> >
> > Yeah, it's a tragedy. Takers of code who don't give bac
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/09/08 18:21, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Real freedom = BSD.
>
> The BSD License allowed the Unix Wars to take place.
How do you figure?
Doug.
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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:31:24PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello Douglas,
> I am using NetBSD since ages (longer then Debian) and I can confirm, if
> someone need only a BASIC Workstation, she/he could go with ANY BSD
> derivates but there is only a problem with hardware support w
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:30:32AM -0700, rihab84 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here is my problem.
>
> I installed my server debian for a distribution network windows and I find
> not a good explanation for the management of accounts utilistauers on the
> windows.
>
> how to create accounts to c
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +, Oscar Corte wrote:
>
> I recently installed Debian at two home PC?s. Both are connected to an
> ADSL modem through which Internet is accessed.
>
> All network configurations were made by Debian at installation time.
> I?m able to ping each machine from e
You say its very slow.
Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem?
Does it take more memory for a larger fs in a linear fashion? E.g.
OpenBSD needs 1 MB per 1 GB fs size to fsck. If the box has less memory
than this, fsck hits swap and really slows down.
Is this 1 T
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:32:13PM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I installed Debian on top of LVM and software RAID1 following this:
> >>
> >> http://dev.jerryweb.org/raid/
> >>
> >>
> >> Everything is fine except that I cannot boo
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:17:53PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > wrong. Lang=C. I don't have any locales installed. This is regular
> > stock VT (no fonts, etc).
>
> Well, let's put it this way. Cre
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:18:17AM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
>
> I just bought a new HP-DV6700z notebook.
> It does not have the option to boot from
> (bootable pen-drive). The USB boot options are
> - USB floppy
> - USB Diskette on key
>
> The desktop is able to boot from the pen-drive.
Deb
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > What gets me is when a man page is written in english and "'" gets
> > translated as "?", as in can?t or "&#x
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> > Its too soon to finish. You have marked for creating the LVs, and have
> > labled them, but you still much choose each one (move curser, hit enter)
> > and select "use as" and select a filesystem type, a filesystem lable, a
> > mount
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > >
>
> [snip]
>
> > > ?(if so how)
> >
>
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:52:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Can I suggest 2 things
> 1 make a bigger boot partition (i typically make it 500M - the cost of
> drives make this easy, plus it gives you room to move)
But /boot
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:12:46AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:01:05AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 2008/5/5 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > $ mutt -v
> > > Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01)
> >
> > Ah, Mutt is known not to work with Hebrew. There is a workaround, a
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:33:31PM +0500, Yassir Saeed wrote:
> I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced
> Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i
> am having a problem installing debian-builder package
>
> i tried to install it from Aptitude
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:29:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Also while we are at it, any suggestions on what I can use
> > in place of gasoline in my car :)?
>
> Of all the fuels that are liquid at room temperature (and thus
> easily transportable and storable without special equipment)
> g
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE,
> stat=0x440
> May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct
> 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: CPB resp_fl
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:34:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > getent hosts ftp.us.debian.org
> > getent hosts security.debian.org
> > getent hosts www.google.com
> > getent hosts www.wikipedia.org
>
> Those return the expected results!
>
> The problem seems to be specific to apt-get an
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:01:42PM +0100, Lesley Binks wrote:
> I just did an 'apt-get upgrade -s' and found these updates were required
> Preparing to replace cpio 2.6-18 (using .../cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement cpio ...
> Setting up cpio (2.6-18.1+etch1) ...
> Errn
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:58:25AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for
> projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet
> cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer.
>
> My latest cartridge just needs to
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:10:00PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun May 4 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > For her password only, couldn't you use one of those low-security thumb
> > readers or a USB key instead of a password?
>
> she has a USB stick.. how
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:18:51PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> So there's no way at all to predict whether a particular piece of
> equipment, or particular software, will work with any or all USB-serial
> ports. Probably it will, but the only way to be sure is to try it.
USB/serial adapters are a conv
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper
> #1 3.2 gB
> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0
> #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot
> #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm
>
> Undo changes to the partitions.
>
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:30:10PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:20:23PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Celejar wrote:
Serious typo:
> I used-to-would-have said that any computer store should have a 9-pin
> serial gender-chang
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 06:37:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/04/08 06:32, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Sun May 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> Certainly there are more than 4 females in this world who can
> >> overcome their "fear" of the SBSOD. Right???
> >
> > my wife doesn't like typi
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:20:23PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2008, Celejar wrote:
> I found this:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-to-RS232-Serial-DB9-9-Pin-Cable-Adapter-Converter_W0QQitemZ140230142593QQihZ004QQcategoryZ41995QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> Will this work fo
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:23:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Help! I rebooted my Etch server (was not having problems prior), and
> it stops early with:
>
> Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount . . .
> kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda2) = hda2 (3,2)
> kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda2
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:40:25PM -0700, Mr Smiley wrote:
> I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my
> kernal-image is reporting the following.
[snip]
> No space left on device
>
>
> df -alh says
>
>
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 250M
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:24:39AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Updating Testing workstations has proved to be much more
> time-consuming than expected.
> Unfortunately, we only have one workstation that can run
> Stable. Some need Testing and most need a combination
> We could (a) continue using
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> In this configuration, X does *not* start on boot. The wife and
> daughter must log in at the Scary Black Screen Of Doom.
Is __that__ what people mean by getting a Black Screen? I thought they
meant they got a totally blank black s
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:18:25AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri May 2 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I'm in the middle of a movie conversion using ffmpeg and I am getting:
> top - 08:17:17 up 19:26, 4 users, load average: 1.04, 1.36, 1.45
> Tasks: 174 total,
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:27:10PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote:
> >>On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text
> >>console a month or two ago.
>
> >Today the vertual text consol
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:03:58AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri May 2 2008, andy wrote:
> > Cheers Mike (& everyone else who has contributed). I downloaded OpenBox
> > and am running it within Gnome after rebooting. I would say that Xfce4
> > has some very serious memory holes at present
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:59:16AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Absolutely true. However, an oversight in creation (which is eternal and
> constant) is providing VT's which each videocard. This causes a
> difficulty for using startx for any user except the first one.
Who needs a video card
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:34:14AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Well, Debian has a -360 list, just as it has an -amd64 list. Don't the
> > -360 people lurk here with the rest of us mere mortals?
>
> I&
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating
> > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370.
> >
> > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean t
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:42:36PM -0700, Mike Ely wrote:
> I've got a newish X-series server running Etch that has a Broadcom NIC
> using the BNX2 driver, all set up statically in interfaces (and I've
> commented out the "allow-hotplug" line for that interface).
[snip]
> What I really need is for
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating
> back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370.
>
> Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the
> EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UTF-8) conversion -
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:29:59PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 05/01/08 15:43, andy wrote:
> >
> >>Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top:
> >[snip]
>>
> >>How can I clear out SWAP so that it does not retain redundant memory
> >>allocated pages?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:22:16PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> CF cards are sold everywhere. You want the long-life versions. Finding
> adapters may be a little harder, but mail-order is probably suitable.
> The internet is your friend here. This was a good idea, I wish I ahd
> thought o
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:55:04PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> Old laptop, for personal use, running Debian Etch. I intend to backup every
> month to DVD via my external DVD writer, and to leave copies with friends.
>
> I want encryption. I use LUKS, but only for my home partition.
Then yo
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:28:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/29/08 22:04, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>> On
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:42:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> I have had Etch on my IBM ThinkPad 570 and use my "Nokia 6120 classic"
> for the Internet connection via O2 (Germany). Now after an upgrade it
> is not more working and my config was wiped out... (I even do not know,
> what h
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:22:16PM +0800, paragasu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:41:45PM +0800, paragasu wrote:
> > > Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it secon
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> For potato I doubt you have much hope except for the last point release
> (which is availible on archive.debian.org).
I have one CD (CD1?) of potato (IIRC 2.2r2) that came with my Debian
GNU/Linux Bible. If that is of any help, I c
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:13:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> For an enterprise quality server where reliability matters I fully
> agree. Yes. You want twice your ram. But you also want to set
> vm.overcommit_memory=2 for reliability.
> By default Linux will overcommit memory allocation. Th
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:00:51PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >
> > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked
> > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap?
> >
>
> Re
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:23:33AM -0700, Rogelio wrote:
> I'm looking for an open source router solution, and someone from the list
> recently recommended zebra (www.zebra.org). I haven't yet identified all my
> needs, but I'm guessing that it will do all my routing needs for a, say,
> class C set
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote:
>
> > An improvement to swapping:
> >
> > http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/SwapPrefetch
>
> Is this in the mainline?
>
> > http://e
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:16:36AM +, Peter Tynan wrote:
> I'm currently operating from a live CD as my /usr partition is
> refusing to mount at boot.
>
> fsck is not working - output below.
>
> # fsck -r /dev/hda5
> fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> fsck.jfs version 1.1.10, 19-Oct-2005
> processing
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:41:45PM +0800, paragasu wrote:
> Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand because
> my bios only
> support 2GB. That hard disk is quite rare nowadays. And if it dies, now
> might be the right
> time for the hard disk but not the right time for
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:48:32AM +1000, Owen Townend wrote:
> On 22/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Googling a little finds others that have had the same issue and resolved
> it inexplicably by reinstalling nfs-common.
I'll throw out this suggestion since I've sometimes got ca
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:39:03PM +0100, John Talbut wrote:
> I have a small home network with nfs set up so that the computers can share
> files. Commonly only one of the computers is running, particularly at
> first. I would like the running computer(s) to automount the nfs shares
> from th
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0200, Asuka Langley wrote:
> I have a big problem.. to be honest this problem belongs to a friend of
> mine, just he can't speak english, and he is blind, so it's a bit difficult.
> So..the problem
>
> He have this line in his fstab:
> /dev/sdb1 /media/disk2 ext
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:20:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oh dear, that's quite a bad news.
> that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset,
> and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive,
> then copy my data in again, it worked
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:12:16PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 19/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Names remain the same over different hardware - less work. For me it
> > is the data it holds or t
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:24:59AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
> I would suggest that you do all this in single user mode, to begin with.
Debian's single-user mode ends up with everything mounted. It is safer
to boot with a kernel command line of init=/bin/sh which bypasses all
the init scripts (an
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:17:32AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> Luis Ariel Lecca wrote:
> >On 04/16/08 11:15, Joey Schulze wrote:
> >> I'm seeking information on modern graphic cards (PCI, PCIe) that
> >> support VESA BIOS mode 0x010C, a special text mode that works with
> >> 132x60
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:29:34PM -0400, Martin Breguet wrote:
> I have a Nvidia GeForce 7300.
>
> On a Lenny box, it works "out of the box". On an Etch box, it installs with
> Vesa, and once you enable contrib & non-free in the sources.list, you can
> install either "nv" or "nvidia-glx".
>
> I
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:07:25PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> I'd do that, and add an additional name server or two (like OpenDNS,
> or your ISP's competition's name server) to the list, on the off
> chance they do get changed.I don't know your ISP, but mine has
> used the same three I
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:57AM +0100, michael wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2008, at 02:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> I presume you have iceweasel in an i386 chroot since there's no
> working flash for the 64 bit? Th
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Hose wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
> I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the
> past 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both
> to be fairly reliable, and much less annoying
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:09:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> I am looking for fonts to make a bunch of certificates. I think these
> are called Calligraphic or Gothic fonts? Any good resource for these?
>
> So far, I have found Isabella that is something like what I am looking for:
> {tmp}$> apt-cache
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:42:54PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> where the list line was to filter out the most frequent messages, but
> I am not really sure what, if any, rejected connections/packets I
> should be looking out for, and what should just be ignored...
>
> Perhaps I should redirect
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude
> release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant
> overhaul of the UI to the search engine; that is, how searches are
> entered and carried out from
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> and one more thought. Could it be possible to write a video driver
> that is essentially a dummy? A blind user does need X to actually draw
> on the screen (unless they're working with a sighted assistant). It
> only needs X
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /,
> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps
> that were installed and hopefully all the conf files in /home/user will
> be compatible with the
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:41:05PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've looked thru "man apt.conf", "man apt_preferences" and "man
> > apt-get", but don't see any way to disable this.
>
> I use aptitude exclusively, and I've n
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:26:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> I remember reading in the list that JFS was a dying FS, because IBM
> wasn't maintaining it full time. And that it might disappear from the
> kernel soon.
>
> Any one still using it. I was actually thinking of using it for my /tmp
> di
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:09:26PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> Contrast that with sid, bug fixes happen fast. It seems, in my limited
> experience, that serious bugs that get caught in sid rapidly
> disappear, sometimes within hours. Sure there's more churn and
> potentially more opport
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:46:20PM +0200, Fabrizio Lippolis wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian etch on a Compaq Proliant ML350. During
> the installation process some hardware is recognized, the network card
> too, and gets an IP address from the DHCP server. Before partitioning, a
> message
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:20:00PM +0200, David wrote:
> comix - The version in Testing had security problems, so it was
> removed automatically (however, the insecure version stayed in
> Unstable). Almost a month later a fixed version was uploaded to stable
> and 10 days later it moved to Testin
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:13:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >> Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all
> >> the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on mo
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:55:47PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:
> On 14/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get them
> > installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am totally
> > blind that's th
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:11:52AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:04:31 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> > However, consider: as thi
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:34:39AM +0200, Sylvain wrote:
> I haven't seen section 7 for man which give all specifications.
I wonder if its in manpages-dev?
Doug.
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:32:22PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> n Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:04:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:19:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:15:05 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> F
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not *need* to
> have my root filesystem read write.
>
> I gave some reasons above for why I would like to be able to crontrol
> if and when the root filesystem is subject t
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