Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-17 Thread Enrico Zini
someone know of work-arounds to this with Thunderbird or Evolution? Ciao, Enrico [1] except of course mutt storing to compressed mailboxes, but then they can't be big -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:40:42AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: I currently have P43.2 1GB, and it's overclocked. But video encoding still takes hours and mozilla compile still takes a while. The expert group that appears to be behind me in this moment suggests you just use some faster form

offlineimap is slow during the initial sync

2004-08-08 Thread Enrico Zini
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Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: An equally adequate reference is available as: /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README ...which is not too hard to paste: aptitude dist-upgrade This command will also attempt to upgrade packages, but it is more aggressive about solving

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:46:37PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji You must use sda1, not sda: the data is on the first (and only) partition of the disk. Ciao, Enrico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Survey on Debian usage

2004-04-20 Thread Enrico Zini
in Spanish, French or Italian if you feel more comfortable doing so. All responses will be anonymised before publishing the data. Replies will be published without headers and signature, while the original messages will only be seen and kept by me (Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and of course

Undoing the 'l' command in mutt

2004-04-13 Thread Enrico Zini
had a look in the '?' list of all keybindings, but found nothing. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Undoing the 'l' command in mutt

2004-04-13 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:40:36PM +0200, Philipp Weis wrote: I use mutt, unchanged keybindings. After I type 'l' to see only the messages matching a given pattern, I'd like to get back to seeing the whole mailbox. Is there a way of removing the 'l' filter besides reopening the mailbox?

Setting up a Taiwanese KDE environment

2004-04-13 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I'm trying to setup a proper Taiwanese Sarge. Just installing the correct localization files, KDE and OpenOffice have Big5 menus and everything, Konsole is able to view Big5, applications talk Taiwanese. Cool! Now, it comes the turn of being able to input Taiwanese with the Zhu-Yin

Re: apt-get install leads to much trouble

2004-02-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:49:30PM +0100, Moritz Beller wrote: Isn't there any possibility of getting my apt-get work again? Thanks for all of you who have any clue and tell me. I can't recall the precise details, however I solved this issue by removing libxcursor-dev and xlibs-dev, including

Re: New kernel crashing - how to test without corrupting disks?

2004-01-18 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:46:14PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: problem. I like to try a couple of combination. But like to minimize the risk of disk corruption. How do I prepare before issuing an kernel-killing command? Perhaps go into single user mode and unmount most of the

Re: debian pwd

2004-01-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:37:57PM +0100, Arkel wrote: does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not supposed to If you find out how, please report it as a bug with severity critical against the involved package. Thank you. :) Ciao, Enrico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: More 2.6.0 woes

2004-01-13 Thread Enrico Zini
-around. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More 2.6.0 woes

2004-01-12 Thread Enrico Zini
has still not being processed, and I've sent the report directly to the maintainer to make him aware of the problem. The problem is quite serious: the keystrokes are viewable by default with dmesg by any user. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)

2004-01-11 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:07:49PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: I got the source for 3COM gig ethernet card from Asus website and I am having compile issue. I have compiled it without real problems on Debian woody... I know, this will not help you much, but maybe it's good to know that

Re: More 2.6.0 woes

2004-01-10 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:41:43AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: rmmod evbug stops that; to make it permanent, I removed evbug from the /lib/modules/version/modules.inputmap but I don't know if this is The Right Way. If it's not The Right Way, I'd like to be updated. I tried that, but its

Re: More 2.6.0 woes

2004-01-09 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:14:17AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: I am now getting loads of messages into syslog like below. The previous kernel 2.4.22 did report one spurious serial interupt but that was all. Any idea how to stop this flow of messages into syslog (as you can see, several a

What about some user analysis?

2003-04-06 Thread Enrico Zini
JoAnn T. Hackos, Janice C. Redish, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, Wiley Computer Publishing --- Yours truly, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description

Building a Xinerama kiosk

2003-02-24 Thread Enrico Zini
the mouse cursor so that it never moves out of the maximized galeon window in the first head. How do I do that? - I've managed to disable X killing trough C-A-Backspace. How do I disable vt switching (C-A-Fn)? Bye, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini [EMAIL

Re: 2.4.18 netfilter NAT problem

2003-02-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:50:24AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: The server is a smal woody box with kernel 2.4.18 and an iptables configuration for firewall and NATting the other two home computers to access the net thru my ADSL connection. The problem is that a natted connection hangs after

2.4.18 netfilter NAT problem

2003-02-05 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, When I came back from vacation I've found that my small home server started having a problem with NAT/Masquerading. The server is a smal woody box with kernel 2.4.18 and an iptables configuration for firewall and NATting the other two home computers to access the net thru my ADSL

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:34:03AM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: That has nothing to do the compiler as far as I can see - mencoder works for me compiled with gcc 2.96 - no problem.The guys at the mplayer lists Fine for that. But suppose I'm doing some C++ development in woody, and that I've

Mustek MDC 3000

2002-06-17 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I've been proposed a discount offer for a Mustek MDC 3000 digital camera, but I haven't found any mention about Linux support for it, neither in Mustek web site nor in some searches in Google. The MDC 800 model seems to be supported, but for the MDC 3000 there is no mention. Is there

Re: Apache and php segfaulting

2001-11-27 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:20:22AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: used also for php development, and since the bug has already been reported (more or less in bugs 119688, 121096, 109454, 116856, 120492), first I tried to recompile apache and php from source, but I had no luck; then I wanted

Re: Random mysql index corruption on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-11-06 Thread Enrico Zini
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Random mysql index corruption on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-10-29 Thread Enrico Zini
to track boot messages and run boot floppies. Is there a way to know that from Linux? Do you have any hints for me to try to solve this problem? Bye, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini (Unibo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adaptec problems with 2.4.6?

2001-07-16 Thread Enrico Zini
of reporting errors. Two questions: 1) Do some people know something of similar problems? 2) Since this is not so debian-specific, is there a more appropriate mailing list to report this? TIA, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini (Unibo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Marking bad blocks

2001-04-15 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Using badblocks I've found some bad blocks on one of my hard disks, and I'd like to mark them bad so that Linux will avoid to use them. The number of bad blocks I've found is low, but they are scattered on many disk partitions: some of them are formatted ext2, some reiserfs and one is

Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-16 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I would like to know if (and how) I can make my computer suspend so that all (most of) is powered down but I can resume it and have it in the same state it had before the suspend. Something like portables do, but with a workstation. The system is a dual PII-450 on a Supermicro P6DGU

Upgrade to g++ 2.95.3 in testing

2001-02-06 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I upgraded to gcc and g++ 2.95.3 in my testing system and I cannot compile c++ anymore. The problem is it can't find libstdc++. This also made autoconf configure scripts stop to run stating that the c++ compiler cannot create executables. I solved removing the old g++ and gcc packages

On bug reporting

2001-01-17 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I would like to know if there are guidelines for bug reporting: I use debian unstable, and I find bugs, but I don't report most of them for many reasons. I've never discussed these reasons with anyone. Now I would like to. I identified until now three kind of such unreported bugs: -

Debian potato on an EGA display

2000-07-11 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm running Debian on a Celeron system with an EGA video board. Everything is fine except the cursor is displayed 2 characters to the right of where it should be. For example, if I type 'foo', I get foo _ but if I press backspace I get fo _ To solve this inconvenient I found a valid

Re: Using Mylex RAID ctrl with debian 2.2

2000-02-01 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Olivier CARRERE wrote: I tried to compile a new 2.2.14 kernel (the file named 'linux' I suppose ;)) with Mylex and ramdisk support and replace the one included in the standard install, and all seemed to work fine *but* at the stage of installing kernel and modules, it

Matrox Rainbow Runner

2000-01-26 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I was planning to buy a new computer, and include some tv-tuner/grabber card; I saw that Matrox makes an edition of the G400 (called Marvel or something like that) with a TV-tuner and video acquisition/output; it seems quite a nice thing to buy, and the price is not that bad. I didn't

Building an emergency repair CD

1999-12-14 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm building an emergency repair CD for the servers we sell. The idea is that if the system ever goes so crazy it can't even boot, you put the CD in, reset the computer and the CD boots and overwrites anything with a copy of the working system. I already managed to build the boot

Considering PAM [Was: How can I change a password from a script?]

1999-12-04 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:55:27PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: Now we have shadow passwords, MD5 hashes, NIS, LDAP, PAM... wow! It's fantastic, but I need something that knows how to change passwords on my system, because I don't. Check out chpasswd - you can pass it a list of

Re: How can I change a password from a script?

1999-12-04 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:57:51PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: How do you prevent people from cracking passwords via your web page? I'm still looking for a secure way to accept passwords via HTML - even with SSL, from what I understand the available authentication stuff isn't suitable for use

What hardware is good for Debian servers?

1999-12-03 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I had many problems with Asus, and it was one of the brands people said to be good. During my quest to solve many of these problems, I discovered that Asus is likely to have problems, or just glitches, that make you loose time where you shouldn't. Now, since there are many servers to

How can I change a password from a script?

1999-12-03 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm root, I'm on a Debian Slink or on a Debian Potato, and I would like to present my intranet users a web page to change their passwords. It would be easy to do, if I just had to work with the good old /etc/passwd database: read the old password, verify it, encrypt the new one and change

Problems with Asus P2B-DS/350 and double PIII 450

1999-12-01 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I have a dual Pentium III 450 system with an Asus P2B-DS/350 main board, in which I removed everything but the floppy drive and the IDE CD-Rom, master on the second channel. The standard Debian boot disk hangs probing the Adaptec SCSI card bundled in the main board; I tried making custom

Re: quickie.

1999-11-24 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:16:26AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: sure someone will know the answer to this. whoever does, could you please reply to me off the list. i'm planning on building a new server. i want to raid 5 the hard drives for security, reliability etc. can i mount a scsi

Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm trying to install Debian slink on a double pentium 2 server with a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller with 3 IBM UW2 9Gb disks. After compiling a custom kernel for the boot floppy and making it boot and see the DAC960, I found that the Debian installation hangs: it gets stuck asking me if

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: Try `mem=256M' instead. Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. I can't see why syslinux reports having less than 608Kb of base memory. Well, I *can* see why, since the base memory

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Try `mem=256M' instead. Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. Try `mem=255M' instead. Fine, I'll give it a try tomorrow. Even if it starts, anyway, the problem remains:

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-10 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in it. I read in the manual ie man egrep that the lines are limited to 2048 bytes. The error i

Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! In order to improve reliability, reduce fsck times, increase foolproofness, preserve the wildlife and so on (on a Debian Slink server with a Very Interruptible Power Supply (tm)), I wish to mount read only as many partitions as I can. My goal would be to have everything read only except

Re: Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 08:15:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: What's The Right Way (tm) to have / mounted read-only? My diskless package (I just uploaded 0.3.2 to master today) does what you want (but for diskless systems). Sadly, my system is the network server: the one and only system that

Re: Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:07:33AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: I did mount / with the sync option on a server of mine. So the danger of data loss is reduced a bit. Since / is not that big a fsck is quite fast. Thanks! This seems the best available solution for my system.

Re: Modem connection speed

1999-09-09 Thread Enrico Zini
On 8 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: This is my chatscript (I added ECHO and REPORT to the original pppconfig generated script, but nothing changed): connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/mclink2 Change that to connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -r report_file -f /etc/chatscripts/mclink2

Monitor various system informations

1999-09-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I am looking for a way to monitor various system informations for the debian servers we install. An example of informations to monitor is: - Network throughput - Uptime - Mail queue size - If I'm sending mail, what's the sending progress (1) - If I'm retrieving mail (fetchmail),

Can't install gnome-apt and console-apt

1999-09-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Here's the screen dump: marvin:~# apt-get install gnome-apt console-apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some

Modem connection speed

1999-09-08 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I would like to see the modem connection speed after the CONNECT message in my logs; I use ppp 2.3.5-2 on a slink box. * This is my chatscript (I added ECHO and REPORT to the original pppconfig generated script, but nothing changed): ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIAL

Re: Modem connection speed

1999-09-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote: I would like to see the modem connection speed after the CONNECT message in my logs; I use ppp 2.3.5-2 on a slink box. Depends which modem do you use. Look at your modems manual to see how to enable connection speed reporting. ATX4, and as you can

printing on a pcl printer is slow!

1999-07-12 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I have a Debian box that, among other things, shares an HP LaserJet 5 connected to a parallel (ECP/EPP) port for a mixed win95/linux environment. If I print from win95 everything is fine, but printing from Linux (that involves using GhostScript to convert PostScript to PCL to feed the

Understanding apm on an intranet server

1999-07-12 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Is there some walkthrough to configure apm to do everything to lower power consumption (i.e. turn off hard drives, set the cpu to low power mode, switch off the monitor, whatever else) even if I'm not using a laptop? It could be interesting to have a server (e.g. a print server, or a

Flushing the slink question cache

1999-06-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink distribution: 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown, while I often find a need for it in many environments: is there another way (i.e. The Debian Right Way) to do it? 2)

Another two questions...

1999-06-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I forgotten two more questions to ask: 1) How's life going for visual impaired people? The only package specific to blind users is emacspeak, but I know there's more: is BRLTTY still alive? Last time I checked was some two years ago: has something new come out since then? 2)

Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation

1999-04-01 Thread Enrico Zini
Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without being asked to download 63.1Mb of packages? TYA, Enrico -- PGP key available on finger -l

apt-get weirdness

1999-03-23 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Could someone explain me this? marvin:~# apt-get install libgnome-dev Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following extra packages will be installed: libtiff3g-dev libglib-dev libungif3g imlib-progs libungif3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev libjpeg62-dev

Wishes and ideas...

1999-01-29 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Here are some wishes and new ideas I've piled up in last days: Many people periodically upgrade their systems using apt as I do. One thing I would like to have is a log file showing what changed on my system after each apt-get run, extracting the relative portions of the changelogs of the

Why is lpd making this dns query?

1998-12-08 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I have set up a print server and a print client with magicfilter and everything would be fine, were it not for lpd on the server side making a dns query (and waiting a long timeout) for every remote connection. My system is not always connecting to the internet, and a query for a host not

Upgrading with APT: which packages is it going to download?

1998-10-29 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! As my modem internet connection is slow and (being in Italy) expensive, I would like to use apt to upgrade my system, but being myself the connection using a Zip disk to carry .deb files from our debian mirror at the university to home. Is there some way to know what is apt going to

wwwoffle breaks file uploads

1998-09-24 Thread Enrico Zini
It appears that when using wwwoffle (Version: 2.1c-1), Netscape (Navigator 4.04, the only I tried) is not able to do file uploads (input type=file in a form enctype=multipart/form-data) anymore. If I disable proxies from Netscape everything starts going fine. Clues?

What about a Linux key?

1998-01-11 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello PC users! What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those Window 95 keys on all new keyboards ? They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch virtual consoles, leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative for Ctrl-alt(gr)-Fn in X and DosEmu; more, one could use

What about a Linux key?

1998-01-08 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello PC users! What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those Window 95 keys on all new keyboards ? They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch virtual consoles, leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative for Ctrl-alt(gr)-Fn in X and DosEmu; more, one could use