Re: slow network [solved]

2008-06-26 Thread Vikki Roemer
ter has a bunch of ethernet ports on the back, if I have more problems, I might start by plugging the computers directly into that. Anyhoo, thanks. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #280021 "Sometimes the lights all shinin' on me; Other times I can barely see. Lately it o

slow network

2008-06-26 Thread Vikki Roemer
or do I have a bottleneck somewhere? If there's a bottleneck, how do I track it down?. TIA, -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #280021 "Sometimes the lights all shinin' on me; Other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip its been."

Re: CPU frequency scaling

2008-04-21 Thread Vikki Roemer
ice" > > I using Debian Lenny with the latest 686 kernel. > > Anybody any ideas? Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #280021 "Sometimes the lights all shinin' on me; Other times I can barely see. Lately i

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes (was: Laptop with Linux preinstalled)

2008-04-18 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whereas my main computer has had the same name since I set it up-- > > neuromancer. My naming scheme is AI computers/robots (I have

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes (was: Laptop with Linux preinstalled)

2008-04-18 Thread Vikki Roemer
e same name since I set it up-- neuromancer. My naming scheme is AI computers/robots (I have to throw in robots to include my fiance's computer, Canti). That system has been in several cases, with several different processors (AMD Duron, P3, now Celeron D). The only thing that's remained

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:08 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > In my experience, I've never had fortune break scp, but maybe I've > > just been lucky. > > > > But, if it does cause proble

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
' and 'rsync' at the least. Probably other > tools that use a remote shell such as cvs, git, etc. > > http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.9 In my experience, I've never had fortune break scp, but maybe I've just been lucky. But, if it does cause problems, just rem

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-04-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vikki, Ron & others, > > At Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:55:16 -0500 Vikki Roemer wrote, > > "Because threading is done by message id > (see headers) ..." > > At Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:27:58 -0500

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Vikki Roemer
e current timeline releases for 7.10, > > 8.04 and 8.10 respectively. So it'll have to be 'j' onwards. How about > > Jovial Jackal? > > Wasn't there a Hoary Hedgehog? Yeah, from about 2 years ago before they started going in alphabetical order. -- Vikki

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
the real > >reason he married her. > > Shhh! Pfft, we all know why men marry us. Well, those of us who don't hide behind delusions... Which is why most women won't listen to us when they're told the real reason why. :P -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #28002

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-19 Thread Vikki Roemer
the continuity of the message/reference ids. Basically, if you don't reply you're starting a new thread. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #280021 "Sometimes the lights all shinin' on me; Other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip its bee

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> DOS, and then Windows, allowed seeing only the active primary partition > >> b

Re: curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
t; 400 1063 "-" "-" > ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:02 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" > > I see blocks of these in the apache2 access.log. IIRC, it's either a worm/virus or something else automated. I used to see them all the time when I h

Fwd: question about vim

2008-02-22 Thread Vikki Roemer
Sorry for not replying to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:32 AM Subject: Re: question about vim To: Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Andrei Popescu <[

Fwd: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-22 Thread Vikki Roemer
Sorry for not replying to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Software for collecting email addresses To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Depo Catcher <[EMAIL

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
ous bash sessions, when they > are > not the last session to close. > > Is that normal? Or is there some sort of caching that I can configure better? Yes, it's normal. I don't know if you can reconfigure it (hopefully). -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #280021

Re: Sid/Unstable

2007-11-08 Thread Vikki Roemer
ble. I've never heard of it becoming unbootable, but it has been known to crash, get flaky, and just generally have bugs you wouldn't want a server to have. But that's my opinion; I also don't care about being bleeding edge, I'm a security freak, and I take my server very

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
o your > system. Or what you may have done to inadvertently remove it. I'm running Etch, and when I did apt-get install ssh it just installed the ssh client. I had to install the server separately. -- Vikki Roemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
honours (EG. GCC): gcc, linux kernel, debian, apt/dpkg, emacs, vi, apache, bash, tcsh > > games: angband, lbreakout2, petris -- Vikki Roemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please help asap

2005-09-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
basically, "why is this person emailing *us* for help, and not AOL tech support?". -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah. PGP fingerprint:

Re: Please help asap

2005-09-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
no idea what Debian is, so they don't understand where > their question is going. Have a little pity. Ah. Point taken. Sorry for adding to the noise, btw. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Things you&#x

Re: Please help asap

2005-09-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
eply' and only replied here, wondering if anyone knew why the devil anyone who uses AOL (and presumably Window$) would email us. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ ... and remember: WWW does not stand for "

Re: Please help asap

2005-09-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
..cell is 1-772-559- > > please call me..please..thank you.. > > adele Where do these lusers keep coming from? *shakes head* Cheers, -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ University, n.: Lik

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-31 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:29:53PM -0700, David Koski wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:39 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > > > ..go on shopping sprees every weekend or so. My cousins were dumped into > > daycare as soon as they hit the minimum age (6 weeks-- I kid y

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
7;t used any, so I can't give a recommendation. That's all I can think of for now. HTH. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Harry Tasker: "Ask me a question I would normally lie to." Hel

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
ds, make sure they get a good education, and quit dumping them on daycare, school, and society. If and when I have kids, they will never see the inside of a daycare center if I can help it. My $0.02 USD. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user

Re: weird characters FIXED

2005-08-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > > the characters in programs don't display right. >

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:35:01PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many > > fans as possible in the system (including putting an 80mm case fan on the > > C

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:26:14PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), > > what overheated ?? Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs h

weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
;s messed up. Anyway, my question is, how do I set i back to the ascii (i forget the number) charset? I forgot what command I used to change it in the first place. :( TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ W

Re: emergency! unrm a directory

2004-02-21 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:52:57AM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > I just rm'd a website on my server by accident, I need to know if there's > any way I can get it back. I have an ext3 filesystem. I can't umount /var, > the system won't let me, so I don't

emergency! unrm a directory

2004-02-21 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi, I just rm'd a website on my server by accident, I need to know if there's any way I can get it back. I have an ext3 filesystem. I can't umount /var, the system won't let me, so I don't know how much time I have before the inode is overwritten. Can anyone help me,

Re: dynamic IP questions?

2004-01-19 Thread Vikki Roemer
figure that out myself. HTH. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ I see the eigenvalue in thine eye, I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh. Bernoulli would have been content to die Had he but k

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:02:06PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 2:30 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:17:27PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > On Friday 14 November 2003 11:23 pm, Tom wrote: > > > > compared to th

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
that the Democrats cheated, too-- they just weren't successful. *shrug* What's done is done-- dwelling on it just breeds division. And unlike a software project, it's not a Good Thing for a country to try forking. Again, all that is just my opinion. For context, I'm (religion-w

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:37:08PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:09:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:44:02PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ > > > > My e

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
tes and sources to your clients in a consistent fashion. I have thought about doing that. I prolly should practice making a package with the free console alarm_clock app... *wanders off to RTFM* -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://coun

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:09:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:44:02PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ > > My everloving christ. You must be the only Linux user in Brunswick > County. I expect t

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
ferrence. If the customer *insisted* on (*gag*) RH or Mandrake or something, I would definitely charge extra. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Once upon this midnight incoherent, While you pondered sentient

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
d her business, but she's kept the machine. So she says she could transfer it to my business. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
Yikes. I'm starting to think the FooAdmin part of Foosoft is a bad idea... :( -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Disc space -- the final frontier! PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
problem could be. I thought I'd restored the settings that I'd lowered, but I guess not. Where can I get a copy of the default /etc/apache/httpd.conf settings to double-check? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > It's empty *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else see

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
lementary schoolers to trivia (the class I'm taking this 6 weeks) to chess), and we use the electric company's meeting room for our group's monthly meetings. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.l

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
imes I'll want to go out or something, and I need someone to work while I'm out. > ..802.11 connectivity plans in your area? Fast piping is not all that > cheap. ;-) Sometime within the first half of next year I'm going to be getting home-class ADSL (I'll upgrade to bu

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
ut there who have linux and are looking for help administering it. > -- email support in mailing lists is good enough for 95% of folks >except business that already have their inhouse staff or their >local "friends" I'm hoping more people have the mentality that the

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Vikki Roemer
ll custom-compile a new kernel for your system. Premium Plan: You get the basic plan, plus I will install/compile and configure any packages you want. Two questions now: is there anything else I should offer with either plan? And, how much do you think I should charge monthly (in USD)? TIA

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-10 Thread Vikki Roemer
ing up a computer/software company selling custom-coloured Linux computers (it'll be officially started up in early to mid-'04), and I just realized that I could offer a service to remotely administer computers for people who don't know and don't want to know ab

Re: speaker and bios [WAS: 2 questions: network card and internal speaker volume]

2003-11-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:06:46PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi! > I have 2 questions. First, how do I turn up the volume of the internal > speaker? Haven't solved this one, but... > > My second question is a little more complicated. I just put in a new > motherb

2 questions: network card and internal speaker volume

2003-11-01 Thread Vikki Roemer
ean ; make modules ; make modules_install'), but that didn't help at all. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might be? TIA. BTW, how do I reflash a BIOS without booting off the MB? I want to fix the other MB, and its' problem is a corrupted BIOS, AFAICT. TIA. -- Vikki Roe

Re: making a disk image

2003-10-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
ame.img Thanks, that worked! :) -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ > Who the fuck is General Failure? And why is he reading my harddisk? General Failure, Major Number, Colonel Fault, Private Key...

making a disk image

2003-10-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi, I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.o

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-10-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:00:11PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > If you don't hear anything more in this thread, assume this did the trick. :) Well, I only put off the inevitable-- I ended up having to buy a new power supply. But I'm keeping that extra exhaust fan, 'caus

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-23 Thread Vikki Roemer
switch. :) Guess which route I took? ;) I'm not going to buy a new psu since this one is still pretty much working-- just not quite as much as it *was*. If you don't hear anything more in this thread, assume this did the trick. :) Thanks, all! :) -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-23 Thread Vikki Roemer
r. > Either way, replace it. ;-) On that note, I wonder if any of the other fans are fubar... :( -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ This is an unauthorized cybernetic announcement. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-23 Thread Vikki Roemer
*shrug* I assumed it was safe, since my dad said so. *sigh* Shouldn't have aimed it at the psu, eh? -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-23 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:05:30AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:42:18 -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:59:36AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > >

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-22 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:59:36AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..Vikki, check the _power_supply_ fan. (AKA PSU fan) ;-) What about it? -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ What's this script d

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-21 Thread Vikki Roemer
lug it in. I already have a fan in the front of the case, but there's no place towards the back of the MB to plug in a fan (there is space in the back of the case, however). *sigh* BTW, it apparently wasn't the paint, 'cause I'm having the same prob again. Time to go shut do

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-20 Thread Vikki Roemer
as an insulator when it gets more than 1 or 2 coats on it. Just in case any of you were thinking about painting a computer with acrylic paint. ;) I *hate* vanilla beige boxen! :b Anyway... Sorry for the noise. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux

logins and logouts hang

2003-09-19 Thread Vikki Roemer
et half-way logged out and the logout hangs, but not the whole terminal. What could be the problem? Could it be a problem with pam? A hardware (like, overheating) problem? Do you need any more info? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
Only one of the force options is needed, but I am not sure > which ;)) That did it! :) Thanks. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I&

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
packages depend on system-log-daemon. TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Yes, but every time I try to see things your way, I get a headache. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
iled programs before, I've just never compiled a *package*. TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB

mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Vikki Roemer
27;m hoping going back to testing's gnupg will solve all my problems). So I was wondering if it would be possible to do that, considering that testing and stable have different libc versions. TIA, and apologies for the stupid newbie question. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuroman

Re: gpg problems

2003-08-28 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:31:47PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:32:05PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a gpg key, and under my old install I could get gpg to work with > > mutt. Now mutt and gpg won't work together. Ap

gpg problems

2003-08-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
I'm running a server I'm running stable-- don't know if that's pertinent or not), so everything should run the same as before, right? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ What's this

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
ng > it for backup purposes is a snare and a delusion. Hmm, good point. Thanks, I'll do that. :) -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine, Lisp Machine is Fun. Lisp, Lisp, L

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:03:23PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi > > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs > > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new one-- so now

Re: RAID?

2003-07-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:26:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi > > > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs > > > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me

Re: can't ping lan

2003-07-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:21:37PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 16:57, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to set up IP masquerading. I had it set up under a previous > > install, but I can't get it going now. The problem seems to be

can't ping lan

2003-07-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
ssing everything up? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keys

RAID?

2003-07-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
use? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Lizzie Borden took an axe, And plunged it deep into the VAX; Don't you envy people who Do all the things YOU want to do? PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
Thanks for your help, everyone. My mom asked me about the problem, so I explained it in as much detail as I could (she's the only person in the family who's not a computer person, though), and she's convinced that there's something physically wrong with the HD (I dunno why, but that's her belie

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-29 Thread Vikki Roemer
Kent West wrote: Vikki Roemer wrote: Did that, got a couple of weird errors, and found out anacron is what's freezing up the system. The errors are: starting blinkenlights: nice: start-stop-daemon: no such file or directory. gdnc unable to make connection to 127.0.0.1:538 -- netwo

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
Kent West wrote: Vikki Roemer wrote: Kent West wrote: So boot into single-user mode, or start Linux from the lilo prompt with something like: boot: linux single init=/bin/bash or boot: linux -b (see man init) to start a minimalist system (-b = "emergency"), and see if the mac

Re: "Is your son a Lunix user?"

2003-02-24 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:35:42AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:01:58PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Yeah, didn't somebody post a link to it on the mailing list when the > > article first came out around June? I really found it funny because I

Re: *grins*

2003-02-22 Thread Vikki Roemer
t, they've decided that Linux is ok. :) They still don't quite understand how everything (distros, etc.) works, but they've accepted it as superior. So that's why I got the joke. But what was really funny was the comments from people who took it seriously. Anyway, that's my $0.0

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
ts. BUT, I hope that NASA doesn't do what they did after the Challenger and just sit around for years out of (unnecessary) fear. *sigh* Anyway, that's my opinion, FWIW. *shrug* -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://c

Re: Dual Lilo boot with Debian and RedHat

2003-01-31 Thread Vikki Roemer
ot;/boot/bzImage" label="Neuromancer" read-only I have a menu pop up, but I'm not exactly sure what line does that; check the manpage. That's what worked for me. *shrug* HTH, -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Regi

Re: home lan, modem sharing, etc.

2003-01-29 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:50:33AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Vikki Roemer said: > > Hi! > > So I have several questions: > > Can I set up modem sharing with a minimum of hassle for my parents > > when they go to use it and for free?

home lan, modem sharing, etc.

2003-01-28 Thread Vikki Roemer
out of work, we don't have money for a $60 piece of software. :( Is it possible to set up the mail on my system so that my parents' mailboxen can be accessed with Mozilla on their computer? I tried getting Moz to get mail from localhost but it won't-- will I run into similar pro

Re: themes for vt

2003-01-20 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:14:00PM +0100, Niels Felsted Thorsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) writes: > > > Hi! > > I'm trying to track down a package that I had installed back when I > > was running Potato. AFAICT, the package is not in Woody (for w

themes for vt

2003-01-19 Thread Vikki Roemer
?? If someone could tell me what the name of the package was or (even better) where I can find it (or something like it), I'd really appreciate it. TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Ju

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
Sorry, wrong list. :( I meant to send it to debian-curiosa. Sorry. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to ge

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
ar-old guys-- the ones who hate nerds (all nerds, that is; girls aren't let off the hook); the ones who are scared off by girls who are slightly more intelligent than average; and the guys who are also somewhat more intelligent than average, but are so shy that they can't put 2 words t

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Vikki Roemer
quot; with the results. I would prefer results to scroll > the screen like "dict chili". Will surfraw do this or will > I need to try and hack it? AFAIK, it needs a browser. That's its nature, it starts the google search for you and then hands you the browser to go where you

Re: Happy XMAS O.T.

2002-12-25 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:11:53PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > I wouldn't mind some good non-alcoholic ginger beer as I haven't reached > the local drinking age yet and the ginger ale around here is very weak. > Same here. :) Merry Christmas, everybody! -- Vikki Roemer

Re: OT: what BIOS options are accessible (r/w) from the OS?

2002-12-23 Thread Vikki Roemer
those ultimate firewalls. I hope they're not too expensive... :P -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://compgrokker.tripod.com/ Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Quod scripsi, scripsi." [Latin, "What I have written, I have written."] PGP finge

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-22 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:32:50PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:13:18PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > On Tue, De

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
entries, but linuxconf is only displaying 1, and yet I don't ever remember having qmail installed in the first place!). I was just wondering since some config files cannot be edited by hand or there will be Dire Consequences. TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://co

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > > > > You may want to try a strace of su: > > > > > > $

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Mon, 2002-12-16 um 19.46 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > As for not being allowed to su to root, that's odd, too. What > > happens is, I'll type in su, it'll prompt me for a password, I

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:02:16PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:01 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote: > > > Hi! > > Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy > > drive or su using one of my acco

can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
ry." I can't figure out what the problem is there, either. Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't have any trouble mounting the floppy or su'ing. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might be? TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http:

Re: apropos segfault

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:17:43AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:27:19PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > For the past few days I've been having trouble with apropos > > segfaulting. > > It's been reported a million or so times. It's a

Re: apropos segfault

2002-12-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:49:55PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Vikki Roemer writes: > > But does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? > > No, but lots of people (including me) are seeing the same thing. Bug > reports have been filed. Ok, thank you. -- Vikki Roeme

apropos segfault

2002-12-15 Thread Vikki Roemer
-date. I'm running a mix of Libranet, Debian Woody, and Sarge (testing); I'm 99% sure this is a Debian thing, so I'm posting my question here. But does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ &

Re: good procmail alternative?

2002-12-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
too-- just say 'xfilter spamc' (I think; I don't have my .mailfilter file in front of me). Personally, I'd recommend that. HTH. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Quod scripsi, scripsi." [Latin, "What I have written, I

Re: Spammassassin errors

2002-11-29 Thread Vikki Roemer
I'm not sure if it's cause I'm missing something or what? It's missing spamd. Run 'spamd -d' (as root) and it'll work. To fix it permanently, edit /etc/default/spamassassin and on the line that says 'ENABLED=0', change 0 to 1. That's what did i

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