Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Josh Battles
On Fri, April 28, 2006 11:09 am, Martin A. Brooks wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have dozens

Re: [OT] c programming mailing list

2006-04-27 Thread Josh Battles
On Thu, April 27, 2006 12:30 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: Juraj Fedel wrote: I do not like to use newgroups Why? One reason I don't use them is that they cost additional money, whereas e-mail comes with the ISP package. My ISP gives me 20GB of monthly transfer from their

RE: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Josh Battles
On Thu, April 27, 2006 5:59 am, Ken Walker wrote: when i do apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install fluxbox on a base install of Debian stable then startx,i go strait into fluxbox and reboot, i get a debian login screen, which when logging in takes me strait to fluxbox. The

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Josh Battles
On Thu, April 27, 2006 1:15 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:47:07 +0100 Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:57:41AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:46:52PM -0400, Terry wrote: I just loaded my first Linux machine. It

Re: ipod nano gtkpod

2006-04-04 Thread Josh Battles
On Mon, April 3, 2006 11:46 pm, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:32:48AM +, ilaboo wrote: i cannot synchronice itunesdb Odd. Are you doing a read before trying to do anything? It took me a bit of playing to get it to work at first, but I find that if, as soon as I

Re: ipod nano gtkpod

2006-04-03 Thread Josh Battles
On Sun, April 2, 2006 6:32 am, ilaboo wrote: anyone out there got ipod nano working using gtkpod? I use gtkpod with my 4g ipod all the time. I'd assume the interface is the same as a nano. i cannot synchronice itunesdb Sorry to hear it, what error are you seeing? any help directions

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-14 Thread Josh Battles
On Tue, March 14, 2006 8:13 am, Jon Dowland wrote: At 1142277356, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Michael Ott wrote: I've heard of lots of people running Linux on IBM Thinkpads, but I can't seem to purchase one from Lenovo without Windows. IMHO ThinkPads are

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-02 Thread Josh Battles
On Wed, March 1, 2006 11:04 am, Mike McCarty wrote: . wrote: Hi, how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server or the

Re: Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-11 Thread Josh Battles
Brian Nelson said: Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why? What are the advantages of upgrading to 2.6 for my scenario? This machine has been running for quite some time and does everything else I need just fine. Would upgrading to 2.6 help my unmounting issues? Yeah. I don't think

Re: Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-11 Thread Josh Battles
Josh Battles said: Brian Nelson said: Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why? What are the advantages of upgrading to 2.6 for my scenario? This machine has been running for quite some time and does everything else I need just fine. Would upgrading to 2.6 help my unmounting issues

Re: Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-10 Thread Josh Battles
Brian Nelson said: Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got something like that... Here's the relevant information that dmesg outputs about the ipod, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything with it. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage

Re: Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-10 Thread Josh Battles
Ron Johnson said: What DE are you using, and what Debian branch are you using? In Sid GNOME 2.10, when you insert a pluggable device (be it USB or firewire), it is automatically mounted and an icon appears on the desktop. I'm running Sarge and whatever version of GNOME corresponds to that.

Re: Testing vs. Stable

2005-11-10 Thread Josh Battles
Rafi Gabzu said: 2. When installing Testing, do I always stay in the Testing phase ,or after it finally become stable I become stable too ...? Thanks. It depends. When you configured your apt sources, did you specify testing or etch for each source? If you specified testing, you'll be

Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Battles
I've got an iPod that I'd like to use and for the life of me I can't figure out how to mount the thing. I'm running Sarge and have the debian package for gtkpod installed, as well as USB support compiled into my kernel (2.4.27). I've never used a USB device under linux before, all of my devices

Re: Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Battles
Sergio Cuéllar Valdés said: 1. connect the ipod and use the dmesg command to see if it was detected. You should see somthing like: usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before

Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Josh Battles
Jon Dowland said: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:37:42AM +0100, Marc Br?nink wrote: On Dienstag, Nov 8, 2005, at 10:11 Europe/Berlin, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, Is there a way to edit the 'fluxbox' right-click menu?. Thanks... Yes. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook.php Debian

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-08 Thread Josh Battles
Colin Ingram said: Hey thanks for the suggestions but I was really looking for something with liveTV like functionality to go in a media center box MythTV will do this. If you have the time and patience you can set it up to work like any other DVR on the market. (pause live TV, etc...) Look

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
Roberto C. Sanchez said: I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have experience with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that experience).Personally, I am just

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
Roberto C. Sanchez said: Quoting Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Roberto C. Sanchez said: I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have experience with certain Promise cards under Linux

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
TreeBoy said: On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards. I got my grubby little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for myself and donated

Re: Keeping a closet cool (was Re: IDE controller card recommendation)

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
Ron Johnson said: On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:19:32 -0500 (CDT) Josh Battles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TreeBoy said: On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: [snip] LOL, It added less than $10/monthly onto my bill. Suprisingly, noise isn't too bad. The cable internet line comes

Re: Question about samba setup in Sarge

2005-09-27 Thread Josh Battles
Paul E Condon said: I am attempting to create a samba server on a Sarge box using pure Debian. I am looking at the /etc/samba/smb.conf that was set up by the samba package and have a question about a comment in it, namely quote # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read

Re: Newbie Network Problems

2005-09-25 Thread Josh Battles
Roger Creasy said: Hello: I am trying to connect a Debian machine to my home network. I have one windows xp box and 2 Debian machines. What do I have to do to be able to share files and browse from any of the three machines to any other of the three? WinXP shares some folders by default, I

Re: Bittorent question

2005-09-24 Thread Josh Battles
Erik Karlin said: if you already have it working on another machine, did you have to open those ports to that particular machine on your firewall? If so, you will need to choose another port range and map that port range to your debian box in order to use bt there too. then you'll need to

Bittorent question

2005-09-23 Thread Josh Battles
Last night I installed bittorrent on my server so that I could use it to download/seed some files but I can't seem to get anything to download via BT. I've used BT on Windows and other Linux distros (but never debian) without any post-install configuration but this time it doesn't seem to be

RE: Bittorent question

2005-09-23 Thread Josh Battles
Piszcz, Justin said: dpkg -L bittorrent (or the name of the pkg you installed) It provides the locations for the docs and binaries/scripts. Thanks Justin, I'll try that when I go home for lunch. Also, please don't CC me on replies, I'm subscribed to the list. -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com --

Re: SSH

2005-09-22 Thread Josh Battles
Sean Whitton said: Hi Debian Community, A total newbie question, but... Is there any need to enable SSH, or will it just work out-of-the-box? Thanks! You'll need to install the OpenSSH package first. If you just install the package it will work but it won't be as secure against intrusion

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Josh Battles
Alvin Oga said: car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the task, but a generic car battery would definately be cheaper. and keep your car battery outdoors, not indoors ... and do not light a

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Josh Battles
John Hasler said: Only if you expect to have a power failure every day. Deep cycle batteries are designed to be deeply discharged with great frequency. Car batteries are designed to frequently delivery large amounts of current and be either on float charge or disconnected most of the time.

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Josh Battles
Fritz Brown said: Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic names and cryptic descriptions on the second bootup (or

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-13 Thread Josh Battles
Dr. Steven A. Sola said: I'm thinking of getting an asus z71v notebook. has anyone had any experience with this or similar models? TIA lao I personally don't have any experience but there's a decent writeup on tuxmobil about that very laptop. http://tuxmobil.org/asus.html direct link:

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
Antonio Rodriguez said: I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good recommendations by any chance? I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a wonderful laptop to run Debian on. I

Re: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
Ben Pearre said: Synaptics touchpad driver is broken. [sorry if I have the filenames wrong, I'm at a different computer]. Driver loads correctly according to dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and synclient works perfectly, but apps don't get touchpad events (including xev) (yes, pad is turned

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
antgel said: Josh Battles wrote: I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a wonderful laptop to run Debian on. I installed Ubuntu on my T42 and it detected everything right out of the box and configured it all correctly. The only thing I had to do was manually setup

#debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
antgel said: I've probably spent too much time in #debian, where (if feels like) every second user is complaining about the fact that they can't install or use ubuntu / knoppix / whatever. Actually, for those of you who don't already, stop by. It's good eatin' and an interesting companion

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
kamaraju kusumanchi said: The second problem is that on #debian there tend to be large number of simultaneous discussions which are difficult to follow ( dont know who is responding to what). This is very confusing. With an email client which respects threads, this problem is non-existent

Re: #debian

2005-09-09 Thread Josh Battles
antgel said: It's a great way to learn more about Debian. Lots of expertise. Yeah, people might get told to read the manual, but only if they clearly haven't already done so. You might read it, but you would be amazed at the number of people who don't. I work in tech support/development

Re: Installation Problem

2005-08-09 Thread Josh Battles
David Meeson said: I have installed Version 3.1 several times and on each occasion I have difficulty logging on after inserting user name and password. It appears to accept user name but password it not accepted and the cursor dos not move across. The curson will not move when you type in

Kernel Installation Problem (long post)

2005-08-08 Thread Josh Battles
I've been putting off the 2.6 kernel upgrade on my main workstation for a while because I wanted to learn the debian method to compilation/installation (and because it's been rock solid stable running the 2.4 kernel) so I gave it a shot tonight after reading up on how this whole process works, and

Re: Kernel Installation Problem (long post)

2005-08-08 Thread Josh Battles
Roberto C. Sanchez said: The last time I had that problem I had compiled the kernel on a machine that ran a different version of GCC from the target machine. Is that the case with your setup? Nope, I compiled the kernel on the machine I'm going to install it on. I'm running the testing

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Josh Battles
Hal Vaughan said: We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite ways to say RTFM, but it seems to many are in a hurry to shout RTFMA and excuse themselves as just trying to tell them what to do

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Josh Battles
Hal Vaughan said: On Tuesday 26 July 2005 11:04 am, Josh Battles wrote: Hal Vaughan said: We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite ways to say RTFM, but it seems to many are in a hurry

Re: apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Josh Battles
Joe Potter said: I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. Each one yields the message about failed to open the file. I thought that if the server was down, update would fail; and if update

Kernel Compile - the Debian way

2005-07-25 Thread Josh Battles
I'd like to learn how to compile a kernel the Debian way and haven't had that much luck finding a faq or walkthrough that explains what I'm doing step-by-step and why I'm doing it. I hear that it's easier than the standard way and I'd like to find out for myself what it's all about. can someone

Re: Debian on a handheld device.

2005-07-22 Thread Josh Battles
Redefined Horizons said: I would like to port Debian to a handheld computer that doesn't currently support Linux, but that does support WindowsCE. Any idea where I might be able to find information on how to do this? Scott Huey http://tuxmobil.org/debian_linux_pda.html -- - Josh

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Josh Battles
Michael Ott said: No. SMB can only until 2 GB. For more use CIFS CU Michael Can you point me to some good resources to learn more about CIFS? -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Josh Battles
brockz said: at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 , you wrote: Michael Ott said: No. SMB can only until 2 GB. For more use CIFS CU Michael Can you point me to some good resources to learn more about CIFS? -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com Check that out http://samba.org/cifs/ Thanks -- -

Re: Changing mouse (newbie question)

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Battles
Vegard|drageV said: hi list, I'm a newbie who need help making my new mouse work... Today I'm using a 2-button mouse connected to /dev/ttyS0 (or known as COM1 in windoze) wich is working as it should.But I've gotten a new mouse with scroller wheel and all, wich goes on the standard

Re: Server crashing

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Battles
strawks said: The best way to avoid RAM problem is to buy ECC RAM. This way if your RAM has a failling cell, you'll know it. ECC RAM is expensive and RAM errors are relatively rare nowdays, I don't think this is something that's easily justified in a home environment. Besides with current

Re: Server crashing

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Battles
strawks said: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:52 -0500, Josh Battles wrote: strawks said: The best way to avoid RAM problem is to buy ECC RAM. This way if your RAM has a failling cell, you'll know it. ECC RAM is expensive and RAM errors are relatively rare nowdays, I don't think

Re: samba setup tips?

2005-07-13 Thread Josh Battles
David Clymer said: Please remember to reply to the list, not to the individual. I will reply on-list so that everyone can (hopefully) benefit from our exchange. Sorry about that. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:42 -0500, Josh Battles wrote: David Clymer said: When you say that you can't log

samba setup tips?

2005-07-09 Thread Josh Battles
I'm having a few problems setting up samba on my server and I was hoping that the list would be able to shed some light on my issue for me and point me in the right direction. I've installed all the required pieces of samba and started the daemons and set each user's samba password by using the

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-08 Thread Josh Battles
Brice Méalier said: Sure a GUI is not a bad habit! far from that! but it has the drawback to lower the brain use of the user... A computer is a tool which use you must learn and unfortunately GUIs tend to avoid any learning from the user side. This is true, but most users don't want to learn

Re: installing sarge to lvm

2005-07-07 Thread Josh Battles
Rick Pasotto said: That certainly makes sense but HOW DO I DO IT? The installer gives me no option either to format (select fstype) the logical volumes nor to specify a mount point. The installer creates the volume groups and logical volumes but then does nothing with them. When I set up LVM

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-06-18 Thread Josh Battles
Guillaume TESSIER said: Kent West wrote: Francisco Borges wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:50PM +0100, michael wrote: If I load a list of existing files into xmms it just keeps going through the list endlessly, like if the files didn't exist. My inst of xmms skips files it cannot

Re: newbie pointers request

2005-06-18 Thread Josh Battles
Andy Streich said: Can anyone point me to web-based documentation for newbies that would contain tips, hints, and lead-me-by-the-hand directions on configuring my new Sarge install? Or have I just made a big mistake in choosing Debian over, say, any one of the 100's of other distributions?