Re: sandbox for Window$

2010-11-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [10 08:21]: > In <20101110213657.ga3...@rlharris.org>, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >I think that my need is for a "sandbox" to isolate a Window$ computer. > > Assuming by "Window$" you mean MS Windows, you are posting to the

sandbox for Window$

2010-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
I think that my need is for a "sandbox" to isolate a Window$ computer. I wish files on a machine running Window$ to be accessible to other computers in the LAN, while preventing the Window$ machine from accessing the Internet for http, ftp, email, etc. And, the Window$ machine must not be able to

Re: usb mount pmd661

2010-11-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
* CamaleĆ³n [101101 15:00]: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:35:11 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Has anyone figured out how to mount a Marantz PMD661 flash memory > > recorder in Linux in order to copy the audio files to a computer? or is > > necessary to run a Window$ ma

usb mount pmd661

2010-11-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
Has anyone figured out how to mount a Marantz PMD661 flash memory recorder in Linux in order to copy the audio files to a computer? or is necessary to run a Window$ machine in order to access the device? The device uses SD and SDHC supposedly is USB 2.0 with a drop-and-drag interface. It is the n

Re: Lenny backports installation of one package only

2010-10-07 Thread Russell Gadd
> > > What reference? > > This reference. The reference I included. > > http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2 > > > Ok I didn't associate this part with what I was trying to do. > > I would try first one then the other: > > 1. Use Roman Khomasuridze's suggestion: > > if you want

Re: Lenny backports installation of one package only

2010-10-07 Thread Russell Gadd
e to the newer > version in backports. > > Sorry don't understand this. Please bear with my ignorance and thanks for the help. Russell

Lenny backports installation of one package only

2010-10-07 Thread Russell Gadd
I am trying to update my iceweasel via Lenny backports but it wants to also update my gnucash which I don't want. What am I doing wrong? I follow the instructions as follows: Add backports to sources.list (actually added a file to sources.list.d). It shows up in Synaptic repositories so looks ok

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > You're missing the point. The main selling point to management > is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software > in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will > kill it on the spot. Whatever boot loader I use must not

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
Ryan Manikowski wrote: On 4/6/2010 4:37 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: What you're trying to do here is login to the 'root' account using your non-root account to initiate the ssh connection. It is reading the 'id_rsa.pub' pubkey file from /home//.ssh/ and this is w

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
ion method: password r...@localhost's password: Ryan Manikowski ]] Devision Media Services LLC [[ www.devision.us r...@devision.us | 716.771.2282 On 4/6/2010 4:06 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:24:04PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
I dist-upgraded yesterday and ssh root logins started requiring a password. I also tweaked some other stuff and installed calibre and miro to check them out and they came with a boatload of dependencies so maybe there's something lurking there. Regular user ssh logins work just fine. I decided

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2010-03-28 Thread Adam Russell
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Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-08 Thread Russell Gadd
Thanks for all the responses. I'd like to leave Windows alone, therefore using NTFS has attractions over trying to use ext2. I think I'll try using it in place of FAT32 / VFAT in Linux using ntfs-3g and see how it goes. I'm using Debian Lenny 64 bit on a quad core processor so I'm hoping that perfo

Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Russell Gadd
I've been using Vfat for data partitions which I can access from both Linux and Windows (multibooted). Recently I added another hard drive formatted NTFS and have had no trouble getting Lenny to use it. I am wondering now whether to convert my Vfat partitions to NTFS as there are some advantages.

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chris Jones [100214 02:35]: > Has anyone with real world experience in the area of computer cleaning > tried such solutions as the MetroVac duster line and might be able to > comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? The telephone company uses dry nitrogen to purge tel

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few > people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500. What are your > thoughts on these systems? What is positive, what is negative? I've been happily using Debian on Thinkpads for

xemacs crash caused by near-simultaneous keystrokes

2009-10-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
On a recent Debian Lenny installation on an amd64 system, Xemacs crashes constantly. The crashes appear to be caused by the near-simultaneous pressing of two keys. I am able to avoid crashing Xemacs only if I type very slowly and carefully so as to hit only one key at a time. This is not a probl

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Russell Gadd
belief that it hasn't caused any problems. Thanks again for your help. Russell

Re: update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Russell Gadd
ther question I asked: is my system likely to need some attention due to not having allowed scripts to execute in /tmp since I installed Lenny? If so what do I need to do (apart from reinstalling from scratch)? Russell 2009/6/3 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > In <779b039a0906030932k

update issue when /tmp is noexec

2009-06-03 Thread Russell Gadd
For some time now, in order to add a bit of security I have made /tmp noexec. However I noticed recently looking at the messages scrolling up the screen that some update configuration scripts were failing as they were trying to be executed in /tmp. After googling I found this article: http://www.d

RE: Kernel failure

2009-04-28 Thread Thamm, Russell
Hi Gilles, Thanks for the info. However, I can find no mention of oops in kern.log, messages, dmesg etc. I can find nothing obviously wrong with the system. Cheers Russell -Original Message- From: Gilles Mocellin [mailto:gilles.mocel...@free.fr] Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 3:11

Kernel failure

2009-04-27 Thread Thamm, Russell
#x27;t get this if I select a KDE session. How do I track this down? Cheers Russell Thamm IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are

Ton of Lenny updates

2009-04-12 Thread Russell Gadd
There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening?

side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
I need to typeset a document in which a pair of files are displayed side-by-side, each in its own column, so that the reader easily may compare the two files. The problem is that each file spans several pages; so the left column of each page must be a continuation of the left column of the pre

cupsys 1.2.7etch6 page setup and printer properties default

2009-03-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
On an i386 system, a recent upgrade of cupsys to cupsys1.2.7etch6 reverts to the default page setup and printer properties each time the computer is started, and sometimes in the middle of a session. Page setup reverts to 0.5 inch margins. Printer properties revers to 0.04 gap from edg

stream audio WAV file to local usb port

2009-03-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
I need to stream an audio file in WAV format to a local USB port. Connected to the USB port is a Henry Engineering USB-AES Matchbox ( http://www.henryeng.com/usbaesmb.html ) in order to convert the WAV file to an AES/EBU stream for further processing by apparatus which has an AES/EBU input.

function keys not recognized on amd64 - apple usb keyboard

2009-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
system: apple model a1243 usb keyboard (only 1/4-inch thick) asus motherboard m3a78-t amd athalon 64x2 3800+ dual-core processor debian amd64 (both stable/lenny and testing/squeeze) problem: (1) unable to move between X and a virtual console with the key combination [control

audio recording and playback through SPDIF port

2009-01-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am searching for a guide or HOWTO for recording and playback of audio through a SPDIF port (IEC60958 Type II, coaxial (that is, RCA pin) port). I also am searching for a Debian-compatible motherboard or sound card with a SPDIF port. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-16 Thread Russell Gadd
ANY of the rear 4 slots but did in the front, whereas a different stick did work ok in the rear. Still not something I'm going to spend much time on figuring out. Again many thanks Florian. Best regards Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-14 Thread Russell Gadd
5.32_ep81 orac:/# umounting this second stick produced the original output Russell (still haven't found the way to reply to your post via Thunderbird so I have emailed to the list - I'll post separately on this issue)

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-12 Thread Russell Gadd
no output). Thanks Florian. This command produced no output Russell (I realise I've already posted this reply, but it didn't come out as a response to your post - I'm currently trying to work out exactly if it possible, and how to, use Thunderbird to post to usenet) -- To UNS

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-11 Thread Russell Gadd
no output). Thanks Florian. This command produced no output Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-10 Thread Russell Gadd
Etch. I'd either like to find a fix for this so that the bootup process finds the stick on first boot, or failing that, to run some program to recognise the stick without having to reboot. Russell = In the hope that this might

problems with splashy on sid

2008-09-22 Thread Brent Russell Langille Carter
Hello: I am using splashy on Debian sid with an initrd. I don't use grub or lilo but boot from smartfirmware with options: video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash quiet I have built the initrd and mounted it to check and indeed splashy is in the initrd under /sbin. I also checked to see if libgl

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080620 20:49]: > In GNOME Dictionary Preferences, what dict server is it looking at? edit -> preferences -> source = localhost But no specifics are displayed. The only way I have found to view or add details is to click the "+add" button, whereupon the "add dic

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have complied with all the recommendations posted in this thread thus far, but Dictionary 2.14.0 still is going out to the web (dict.org ?) for definitions. I know that this is so, because my DSL service went out a night or two ago, and I could not retrieve definitions. Is there a reliable "off

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 02:00]: > > Perhaps dictd is not running? How can I check to see? > > 'sudo nmap localhost' on my PC shows inter alia: > > 2628/tcp open dict > > or > > ~$ ps aux | grep [d]ict > dictd 4929 0.0 0.2 95752 4276 ?Ss Jun02 0:00 dictd

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 01:00]: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a > > dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost > &

off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost rather than to dict.org ? The man pages for dict and dictd don't appear to discuss off-line access. The instructions I found in a wiki titled "Gnome-dictionary Offlin

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080616 00:14]: > On 15/06/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting, I have been using "\newline". Where did you find out out > > about the "\\~\\" method? > > \\ seems to be a synonym for \newline, or maybe it's one of those T

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080615 19:07]: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented > next four lines indented > > space > > next four lines unindented. > > It goes on like

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080530 03:56]: > 2008/5/30 Russell L. Harris : > > I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then, > > it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched > > cards) before loading the application.

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080529 23:28]: ... > Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype machines, > where you needed to issue separate carriage return and line feed > characters to end a line - to i) physically return the carriage to the > beginning of the line, a

Re: blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080520 11:42]: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the > > present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress

blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. WordPress rapidly is increasing in complexity because features are being added. The procedure for backing up and restoring the MySQL data base is complex. And with

Re: printing setup

2008-05-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080517 13:49]: > tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one >> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose >> the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this

usb not found on initial boot

2008-05-14 Thread Russell Gadd
Etch. I'd either like to find a fix for this so that the bootup process finds the stick on first boot, or failing that, to run some program to recognise the stick without having to reboot. Russell = I've tried to pull out

Octal permissions display in Nautilus

2008-04-07 Thread Russell Gadd
Minor question: in Gnome's file browser Nautilus, if you select the list view and add Octal Permissions to the columns displayed you get results such as 1600744 for permissions -rwxr--r--. I understand why this should be 744 but what does the 1600 mean? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Alsa question

2008-04-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080404 22:07]: ... > My problem is when I setup /etc/asound.conf to this ... > anyone got any suggestions on how to make it work ? Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 19:28]: > Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If the server's compromised, you should reinstall. My concern is not for corruption of the server. My concern is whether -- if I employ on the server the same password

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 10:42]: > On Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > > it excpet for regular upgrades

server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
SYSTEM: (1) firewall/router (SmoothWall Express 2.0) which (using NAT) provides and protects both a "green" zone for a LAN and an "orange" zone ("DMZ") for a publicly-accessible server (2) ftp or http server in the DMZ (3) desktop machine in the LAN from which the sysop

server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
SYSTEM: (1) firewall/router (SmoothWall Express 2.0) which (using NAT) provides and protects both a "green" zone for a LAN and an "orange" zone ("DMZ") for a publicly-accessible server (2) ftp or http server in the DMZ (3) desktop machine in the LAN from which the sysop

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog (resolved)

2008-03-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080331 08:56]: > On Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 00:37:14 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Regarding alternatives to Blosxom: Blosxom is written in Perl. A > > clone (which since has taken on a life of its own) is Pyblosxom, which > > i

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog

2008-03-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080331 02:42]: > Have you got the CGI directory set up correctly in Apache? > i.e. > ScriptAlias /blosxom/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/blosxom > > ... > Options ExecCGI > ... > Thanks, Chris. See my previous message. I did not have anything set up

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog (resolved)

2008-03-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
The immediate solution turns out to be simply to add "cgi-bin" to the url: http://localhost/cgi-bin/blosxom/ But the documentation and tutorials on the Apache web site (httpd.apache.org) show how to rewrite, map, etc., within the Apache2 configuration file in order to simplify the url to some

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog

2008-03-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
I found a very brief posting which states: Blosxom v2 doesn't work with mod_perl due to its API design (using global variables to be initialised from scratch with each call, etc.) RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

apache2 does not display blosxom blog

2008-03-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
Faced with the prospect of frequent regular updates to WordPress (entirely too much hassle; this appears to be a result of the recent acquisition of WordPress by Google(?)), I am considering a return to blosxom. But I have misplaced my notes from my previous installation of blosxom, and I have not

Re: sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080324 04:49]: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:06:15AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > > cop

sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when copying mp3 files from an ext3 directory to a flash-based mp3 player. Contrary to the instruction manual, the player (a Creative MUVO) plays files in the order

Re: Virtualbox problem - Debian kernel header version?

2008-03-20 Thread Russell Gadd
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:44:44PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: I'm trying to install Virtualbox Guest addtions and at one point the recommended install procedure says do aptitude install build-essential kernel-header-`uname -r` The kernel-header bit comes o

Virtualbox problem - Debian kernel header version?

2008-03-20 Thread Russell Gadd
or the fact that it can't find any kernel headers. Has anyone come across this problem? (If not maybe I should try the Virtualbox forums, but I thought that a Debian specific answer would be more likely from this forum) Russell

Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

2008-03-19 Thread Russell Gadd
Brian McKee wrote: On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote: Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 - How I loathe thee <http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?t=10025> One user sugge

TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

2008-03-18 Thread Russell Gadd
I would like to install Truecrypt on Debian Etch. According to recent posts I have read (see below) there are problems with the new version 5 which means I would like to install version 4.3a. which I am sure will do all I need. However Debian is not one of their supported distros. First proble

Re: Rename partition in Nautilus Tree

2008-03-15 Thread Russell Gadd
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Russell Gadd wrote: I'd like to be able to customise the contents of the left pane of Nautilus file manager either in "Tree" or "Places" view. I have 2 hard drives and each has 4 primary partitions. Each of the data partitions shows up as a ro

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080314 11:14]: > It sounds like a problem with GTK (which both iceweasel and galeon use) > or a problem with the gecko engine (which both iceweasel and gelon use). > > I'd suggest installing Konqueror. You don't need to install the whole > KDE DTE, it will

Rename partition in Nautilus Tree

2008-03-14 Thread Russell Gadd
der, Location: /, Volume: Linux. So the item in the tree/ places seems to be the Volume name. But I can't find where this is stored - it's not in /etc/fstab. Can I rename this somewhere? (I realise this may be a Gnome question rather than Debian - If there's a better list to post this on please let me know) Russell

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080313 12:35]: > There is not need to create a new user just for testing Iceweasel for > config problems. Start Iceweasel from a terminal with the option > -ProfileManager. It starts Iceweasel's profile manager where you can > create/delete profiles. Create a new one and d

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080312 23:56]: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to > > find a browser which is more economical. > > Any process ca

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080312 15:35]: > If you don't play games or watch videos, then what is slowing down a > 1700 MHz Celeron (or any other 1700 MHz CPU) so that you want faster? > > The most important thing is to have enough memory. With that Celeron > box, doing whatever you

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Valkai Elod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080312 02:28]: > There were reports of problems with 4GB of RAM, or some kind of DMA, > I think. There are some board makers that do not want to release new > firmware to correct them. Gigabyte seems ok, Asus might be too, but > check for bios updates. > > I've

amd 690g chipset

2008-03-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am considering an Asus M2A-VM motherboard with an AMD 690G chipset. With Google and Yahoo I found some threads complaining about lack of support, but some of the threads were old and some were not dated. Is the AMD 690G chipset currently well supported in Debian? RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
>> I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used >> in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit >> grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I >> should clean that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal >> insulator but I'm unsure wh

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080223 10:42]: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. > My reply is below. > > > Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use > > the printer as the console output and a USB keyboard as the console > > input.

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
If you ever watch someone (for example, at the county clerk's office) using an IBM electronic typewriter to fill out a form, you'll see constant manual adjustment of the platen, using the clutch which is built into the platen and is actuated by the knob of the platen. But common dot-matrix and da

Re: icedove

2008-02-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080219 11:35]: > Hmmm. So far it is only icedove having problems so I thought it would be > more related than that. But I did have a weird problem over the weekend > where I had to reset my BIOS to get the PC to boot. On some motherboards (mine), a dead CMOS lit

Re: New User

2008-02-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080219 11:56]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrius wrote: > > Is it really good idea to move to Lenny from Etch? > > If you want a stable system without constantly evolving software, stay > with etch. I have been running "test

Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

2008-02-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080219 08:49]: > Russell L. Harris: > > > > Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the > > mail files. Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate > > messages. > > Mbox files?

consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

2008-02-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the mail files. Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate messages. Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach whereby I can process these mail files to (1) considate them into a single file or

Re: iceweasel

2008-02-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080217 08:00]: > > Is iceweasel v2.0.0.12 from the debian etch repository the same version > as firefox? I assume so but I just want to make sure. > > I'm having some minor issues browsing and I can't figure out what the > problem is. The symptom is that icewease

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mitch Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080217 06:14]: > OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the > libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. > > I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 > There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. > > I have 3 other machin

Re: Password problems

2008-02-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080216 17:21]: > > I changed my password using passwd...and now some apps want the old > password...others want the new one! > > For example when I do sudo aptitude update in a terminal sudo will only > accept the new password...however if I run Synaptic...i

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mitch Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080214 03:42]: > I'm having problems with a new installation 4.0r2 > I can't get the machine to connect out using the browser. > > I can ping local machines ( i've set up hosts file & use fixed ip nos only > in the 10.0.0.x 255.255.255.0 range) > > I can ping

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* A. F. Cano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080210 16:21]: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: > > I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and > > audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. > > The other poster already gave good advice on various issues.

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080209 03:28]: > I am getting ADSL (728/128) next week and have some questions. ... The easiest and quickest approach with the least hassle is simply to run SmoothWall Express 2.0 on an old computer, and let SmoothWall handle the PPPoE, firewall, router, DHCP, and loggi

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 21:42]: > > You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your > firewall/router (you DO have a firewall, don't you?), and copy client > software to that machine, for access by your clients. > > I don't have a firewall software, but i have

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 13:42]: > Hi, > > Has anybody found a work-around bug #462243 > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462243). It was > merged with an upstream bug in Xorg > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14162). It happens in my > Debian sid system,

Re: texlive vs. tetex

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 13:28]: > Hi, all: > > I've searched the group for messages on these. > > I have one machine running Etch with tetex. > > Another newer machine where I haven't installed tetex or texlive. > > Anybody with recent experience moving from tetex to texlive

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080205 14:21]: ... > I generally don't forward any ports from my DSL router into my local > machines. On occasion I'll open 80 to let my clients do some > testing. You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your firewall/router (you DO have a firewall,

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080204 04:07]: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: >> > >>> Or provide yourself with a fax facility. >> >> Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax >> machine as easy as the printer be

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080130 20:49]: > Hello, > > I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping > away. The base technology predates my IT experience. > > My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. > She gets headaches and other

Re: format usb drive

2008-01-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080129 03:07]: > BartlebyScrivener wrote: > [..] > > Can someone please tell me what command to use to elmininate any > > partitions on the usb drive and format it for moving files between > > Windows XP and Linux? > > My experience is that Windows is a lot m

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Geosand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080128 20:49]: ... (RE wvdial) ... > Because it does all the config for you. > I used it for the first time the other day - installing a modem for fax. > It did it all in the install procedure, detected the serial port the > modem was on, installed the strings, read

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080122 21:35]: > On Jan 21, 2008 9:42 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? > >

vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been receiving about a thousand spam mails each day; now I am receiving only about a hundred. The spam simply

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080117 22:42]: ... >My ISP is Verizon. So, I decided to try using Verizon as an SMTP host >(outgoing.verizon.net ). Currently, it appears to be working (with the >help of this procedure: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080117 22:42]: >For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, >however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog >suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to >gmail mail servers. > >My IS

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080117 21:28]: > I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting > pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have > absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a > connection I don't even understand how the bro

mp3 file manager similar to midnight commander

2008-01-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am in search of a file manager similar to midnight commander, but for use with mp3 files. The manager needs to be able to transfer files from one directory to another, and to display the ID3 tags (even as midnight commander displays the file content). I have a directory which has many mp3 fil

Re: recommended webcam?

2007-11-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071122 00:42]: > hello > > i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam, i have > an old thing that does 340x280 which is enough to see thatthere is > indeed somebody but the quality is simply awful, so what webcam are > there that are easy

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