Re: Mozilla Firefox: Forbidden page

2004-08-13 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:33, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > I failed to mention in my original posting that I can access those pages > if I go to a Microsoft windows machine and access them via IE. > > So, I don't think it is a proxy/firewall issue. > > I downloaded netscape, but with it I ca

Re: Getting up and running

2004-08-10 Thread bob parker
illing to take me under > their wing on a one on one basis and help me get up and running. Know > this, I'm not exactly dumb in all areas but for example I have been > using Windows about 5 years and have not touched Dos so my computer > knowledge is really shallow. > You m

Re: Making ifup or pump work at startup

2004-08-10 Thread bob parker
ace eth0 inet dhcp iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 The 'auto' makes these devices start at boot time. If your eth0 is waiting on a dhcp server as mine does, there is likely to be a fair bit of delay before it is actually up. Never heard of

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-09 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:13, John Summerfield wrote: > bob parker wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > >>As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > >>Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > >>mony PIC S9(11v3) CO

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:21, William Ballard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:07:31PM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > > > As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > > > Whoops, it's ex

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. > and in PL/1 > money fixed dec(11,3). COBOL, such a beutiful language! If a total overflows the destination field

Re: cdrdao not working - still ??

2004-08-04 Thread bob parker
succeeded on the TDK Silvers at 16 speed, it still burned at 40 speed on TDK Gold, and the TDK Silvers in turn were ok at 40 speed in another burner. Supposedly, the lasers lose their edge after extended use. Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread bob parker
he old one was written (in BASIC) for UniVerse, which is proprietary. > The code is currently stuck on an HP-UX machine to which I have lost the > passwords. Are we talking about a web page interface here? Say Pg + Php? If so I have the beginnings of a payroll module I could contribute. It&#x

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread bob parker
e cause i was home eating and watching Jay leno > though i'd just have used sort +1 instead of 2 sorts > > c ya > alvin Actually the sort without options just undoes the ordering by sort -n, so it just ends up in lexical order instead of numeric. Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Log check reports - what's going on?

2004-07-29 Thread bob parker
Here is an excerpt from the head of my hourly log check report. It usually just flags the odd authentication failure, quite often my own mis-spelling of a password or failure to access cdrom etc. But now I'm getting heaps of the following messages every hour. What next please? Bob P

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-26 Thread bob parker
er heard of tornado but it sounds like it is a similar method. Contrast these with jigdo which takes the load of both the server and the downloader by downloading only what the downloader does not already have available locally. Like wise rsync in very particular circumstances. Cheers Bob Pa

Re: howto create an .iso image from a dvd-r disc

2004-07-22 Thread bob parker
ry simple :) dd if=/dev/dvd of=/mnt/tmp4/stuff.iso > > It may not always work. If the dd fails maybe: mount /dev/dvd df get the # of1k blocks in the device. Div by 2 to get # of sectors. readcd dev=x,y,z f=your.iso sectors=0-# of sectors. where x,y,z is what cdrecord -scanbus reports. If the dv

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-07-22 Thread bob parker
7;t speak at all for how well it might or might not work. As a minimum you will need to get hold of a heap of MS compatable fonts I think. Cheers Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail client for downloading headers

2004-07-18 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:35, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 the mental interface of > > bob parker told: > > A while ago I thought I saw some reference to a package that could get > > the headers from the mail server into a file. That file could then be >

Mail client for downloading headers

2004-07-17 Thread bob parker
lost track of the package name. Would someone be kind enough remind me please. Thanks Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using dd to copy a cd. Accuracy of the obtained image.

2004-07-13 Thread bob parker
. readcd my be invoked in a non-interactive form also so you can use it scripts: readcd dev=your_device f=the_iso_filename sectors=0-no_of_sectors HTH Bob Parker > > AR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hpijs installed but my driver not in list

2004-07-09 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:46, Michael Bernhard Sørensen wrote: > Hi there. > > I'm new to debian. I came from Suse and, latest, gentoo, but I got tired > of waiting for compiling EVERYTHING. ;-) > > I've installed foomatic-db-hpijs(I presume that it's the right package) > to make my hp photosmart 7150

apt-get upgrade downloaded kernel source now what?

2004-07-08 Thread bob parker
The update / upgrade downloaded kernel-source-2.4.18 2.4.18-14.3 What is the debian way to compile this kernel? I checked out man apt-get but it's not clear to me. Thanks Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-28 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:40, Gary wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Any guys have opinions? > > Why ask us men? We can't even see the ketchup in the fridge when it is > staring us in the face, and you expect us to to see /this/? Not always true. There is a fool proof way to cure us guys of cupbo

Re: CD/DVD media detection

2004-03-25 Thread bob parker
strings to get more information. You might need to use result=`cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -msinfo` when you get a $retcode of 0. If the cdr is fixated $result will be an empty string, otherwise you will get a pair of numbers separated with a comma. The 0,0,0 and /dev/cdrom need to be values that apply to y

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-21 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:27, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:59PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > > > If you've got them mounted all the time, you can stick deb file: > > > statements in /etc/apt/sources.li

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-21 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:00, David wrote: > > Rather than treat them as ISO images, if you're going to have the images > permanently stored on the HD, why not just copy the contents of the > CDROMS into directories on an ext{2,3}, reiserfs - or whatever your > poison - filesystem and then in your s

Re: Installing from iso images. SOLVED

2004-03-17 Thread bob parker
debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso on /mnt/Debian3.0/CD1 type iso9660 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) Still havene't installed anything from it because the apt-get update + upgrade is a 5 hour process for me just now. Thanks all Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for S

Re: s3, not s3virge

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
river, or, failing that, the xf86-s3 driver? Ted, That does make a little more sense. I personally have not had trouble with the S3Virge but plenty with s3Trio. apt-get install xserver-s3 Your config file will be /etc/X11/XF86Config not /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 HTH Bob Parker

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:38, Brian Brazil wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for S

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
lace. > > So, *if* somebody decides to buy via mail order, *then* surely > anything but "the full set of all CDs" doesn't make sense. Agreed. FWIW I have hit every one of my Woody set of 7 doing installs. Maybe that's cos I'm retired and have too much time on my hands. :-) Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:59, David wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:57:30AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:31, Beretta wrote: > > > > Yeah and who can tie up their phone line 24 hours. I did d/l a full iso > > (Knoppix) on my dialup at 8/24 throug

Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
is there some way I can divert this requirement to the corresponding iso image mounted on /mnt via the loopback device? Thanks Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: s3 virge

2004-03-15 Thread bob parker
s in xserver-xfree86_4.1.0. I've been told that;s because the s3 chips don't comply entirely with the vesa standard. You might apt-get install read-edid and also the mdetect package, before you install the xserver-s3v package, it might make the configuration stage easier. HTH Bob

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread bob parker
> Try again... Yeah and who can tie up their phone line 24 hours. I did d/l a full iso (Knoppix) on my dialup at 8/24 through the night only. It took a week. And then it was out a bit or 3 and failed the md5sum check, repaired by rsync fortunately. Any way for me on my dialup, the

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-24 Thread bob parker
inyl no, vinyl to tape yes, apart from backup and sharing, vinyl degraded so quickly when played that playing via tape was the only way to get a decent lifetime for your lp. Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-19 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > > > 9) Does the gentoo configurability deliver significantly better > performance? Is the added step of compilation too much of an > inconvenience? By compiling all applications with optimisations for your processor, you can ha

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-06 Thread bob parker
iversity of Durban-Westville, > > South Africa. > > I don't know about plans for an update cd. You could use jigdo do get > the new parts of r2 using your current cd's as a starting point. With > jigdo you can loop mount the old iso, jigdo copies files from there, > the

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-23 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 06:50, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I can't speak highly enough of HP. Their Linux drivers are genuine open > >source, and they state they are committed to supporting Linux for all of > >the

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-19 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 03:38, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2003-12-19T23:29:55+1100, bob parker wrote: > > I can't speak highly enough of HP. Their Linux drivers are genuine open > > source, and they state they are committed to supporting Linux for all of > > their models of print

Re: Question about Jigdo

2003-12-19 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:36, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Just wondering: I started downloading the Debian (sid) cd's with Jigdo > -- however, I wasn't fast enough. Now they've compiled new versions of > the files. > > My question is: would there be "compatibility-problems" if mixing two > different sets

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-19 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:42, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > My mom would like to get my dad a photo-quality printer for Christmas. > Thus she has asked me to look around and give her some ideas as to > what is good. I haven't followed current printer technology in many > years, so I really don't kno

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-17 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:25, Adelle L. Hartley wrote: > > For S3Trio chipsets > > apt-get install xserver-s3 > > I have done the above, and modified the "Device" section > of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to read > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "s3" >

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 02:37, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Johann Koenig wrote: > > No, its not for consumers. Well, at least Debian is not. Perhaps > > Mandrake or SuSE, where you can pay for support, is what you're looking > > for. > > i think "debian" folks is selling [it|your]self short

Re: CD burner setup problem

2003-12-10 Thread bob parker
> cdrecord.mmap: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure > you are root. Hi Ben, My wild guess is that the line above is your problem. su to root then try 'cdrecord -scanbus' again. You most likely have to add yourself to the 'cdrom' group to be able to

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-10 Thread bob parker
ross purposes. And BTW, the vesa driver does work for S3Trio in Version 4.2 eg Knoppix 3.2. HTH Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:42, Ray wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:16, bob parker wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:54, Rajkumar S wrote: > > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Look at jigdo. As I recall, you can start a jigdo construction > > > > of an

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread bob parker
give it that. Also if you've been keeping your installation updated via apt input this line to jigdo-lite, in the files section, as well: /var/cache/apt/archives/ As it happens, I'm downloading NONUS for i386 as I write this, and only 40 odd files need to downloaded out of 1600 or so. YM

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 05:17, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 03:49:12 +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:12, Tom wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:32:47PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> > Good point. And just because Bill Gates

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:12, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:32:47PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > Good point. And just because Bill Gates et. al have become hard-nosed > > businessmen, it does not mean they are immoral. > > Microsoft played the exact same role in its origins v. IBM as Linux

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-11-12 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > Outside of the "crash" screen saver, I have yet to see a BSOD in > Linux. 8:o) Actually I did once, no blue screen of course but I did manage to crash Debian Woody. Fsking around with hdparm at the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-07 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:21, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (06/11/03 17:35), Joseph Jones wrote: > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > > > >is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser > > >identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites > > >the MSIE identifica

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-29 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:52, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:44:16AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:08, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian > > > 3.0r1/testing.) They bu

Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-28 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:08, Paul M Foster wrote: > I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian > 3.0r1/testing.) They burn fine, but when I mount the CD after the second > and subsequent backups, all I can see is the original session. > > Here are the commands I give Linux:

Re: Problem with my printer and cups

2003-10-17 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:17, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hi, > I've got a problem installing the printer of a friend on his plain woody. > He's got a HP Deskjet 640C : this means a non posscript printer > > I've configured CUPS through the web interface after installing the > package that contains all t

Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11:42 Tue 02 Sep?, bob parker wrote: > > I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. > > > > I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest > > hpijs driver (1.4.1). > > > > It&#x

Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread bob parker
utput text quickly and cheaply I need to learn how to configure it to print in draft mode etc. TIA Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA CPU's

2003-08-29 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:37, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:56:02 +1000 > > bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, but does a man with a 'puter have to have a woman? > > Depends. Does he have a decent news feed? Yeah I was forgetting about tha

Re: VIA CPU's

2003-08-29 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 01:56, bob parker wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:37, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:13:47 -0500 > > > > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:06:23AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Or the poster doesn't know much about Java. Having used Java, I'd > > say that Java isn't good for small programs/quick hacks. > > And what I've seen of the larger stuff in Java, it's

Re: VIA CPU's

2003-08-29 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:37, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:13:47 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What brand of fans and CPU cooler do you use? > > Heck if I know. My GF thinks I'm enough of a geek because I can > describe from memory my CPU and motherboard. If

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:13, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > C is easier to learn than shell scripting, the elements at least, much > > less > > > >Perl. I personally find it quicker to code a dirty fix in C than anything > >else and would not real

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > > > Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:21, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages > > seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant > > language for most things Linux. So

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:17, Dave Howorth wrote: > >>> Unfortunately, nowadays "s/C /Perl /". > >> > >>Wouldn't it be easier to read if you wrote it s/C/Perl/ ? > > > > So that it wouldn't change Choo-choo to Perlhoo-choo. > > When I saw the question, I thought the obvious counter-example was so > t

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:46, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:22, bob parker wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > I particularly like the way it deletes the most significant figure(s) > > when you get an overflow in a numeric fiel

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of > > > someone with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular

Intel mobo

2003-08-17 Thread bob parker
Hi folks, Anyone have any experience with this board + Debian? Intel D865GBFLK Planning a future system. Thanks Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-12 Thread bob parker
stro. Last I looked it comes in a few flavours. MorphixBase MorphixCombined-Game MorphixCombined-LightGUI MorphixCombined-HeavyGUI MorphixCombined-KDE - or something like that google gets it's page HTH Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-23 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:26, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels. > > > > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits a

Re: 4GL development (a little OT: perhaps)

2003-07-15 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:30, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally migrating my desktop from XP to Debian. I'm still going to keep a > (standalone) machine around for Windows development (e.g. Visual Studio, > Access). > > Clearly I'd like to do more Linux development. Most of my customers ru

Re: rsync or wget?

2003-07-12 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:51, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hmmm... IIUC, wget only supports regetting a file (if the server also > supports it) and this only resumes downlo

Re: rsync or wget?

2003-07-11 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I use rsync or wget for fetching > packages? I don't really understand the differences. I do understand > that rsync can sync to filesystems by only downloading the differences, > but apt-proxy kno

md5sums in /etc/password

2003-07-11 Thread bob parker
I installed Woody and selected shadow passwords and rejected md5sums wrongly beleiving that to accept md5sum encryption would prevent me using shadow password encryption. I would like to change over to using md5 encryption for my passwords. How would I do that? Thanks Bob Parker -- To

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-09 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:59, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:47, Jose colmenares wrote: > > > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I > > > have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest > > > option that appears when I run dpkg

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread bob parker
tion on supported > cards on http://xfree86.org/support.html. > The package in Woody is xserver-s3 and is part of the install cd set. XFree 4.3 seems to be fscked in Mdk 9.1 for s3 cards, never tried it in Debian. Version 4.2 is available at www.apt-get.org and that works with s3 and Debian. hth B

Re: /usr/local or /opt? which is better?

2003-07-07 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:41, Zhao YouBing wrote: > for install programs? > > It think the FHS doesn't state it very clearly. > > There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access > and /opt can be made globally sharable, > but besides that are there any factors more important whi

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-05 Thread bob parker
(apt-cdrom) I guess it would select the newer packages from that over the r0 stuff. As for security, you do need to have security.debian.org in your sources.list. It does not take much bandwith as a rule but rarely I have a 2-3 hour download (on dialup) when kde is upgraded. Mostly my weekly upda

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:15, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:39:08 +0200 > > Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > > > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync > > > that against a local copy of

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:57, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about > > 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output > > file (i think max size is ar

Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-07-04 Thread bob parker
all xserver-s3v if need be for s3 virge chipsets. HTH Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firewall logs and analyzing tools

2003-06-20 Thread bob parker
r designated recipient. Does not make stats though. HTH Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 03:34, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. > > I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...

getting iproute

2003-06-14 Thread bob parker
I am using Woody and trying to set up shorewall. I need iproute and am without the #2 install cd. How can I get it online? I have man'd sources.list and doing what it says there is getting me nowhere. TIA Bob Parker __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now

Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

2003-06-07 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 07:04, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:43:47 +0200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:29:37 +0100 > > > > David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Would there be much of a speed increase, enough to warrent doing it ? > > > > Yes. > > > > (You

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-05 Thread bob parker
time. You do have to shell out $ for support on RH or Mdk and a couple of years ago the Mdk support was fairly useless. Don't know about the current situation. My 2 bits Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-06-04 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 17:16, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Attempting to actually type a tab key in the place of the '\t' in the > > replacement string just has the xterm barfing and I get the same result > > if I log on in a real terminal. So does attempting to insert Ctrl-I. > > Try typing ctrl-v before

Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-05-30 Thread bob parker
lly type a tab key in the place of the '\t' in the replacement string just has the xterm barfing and I get the same result if I log on in a real terminal. So does attempting to insert Ctrl-I. Is there some way of inserting the tab in octal or hex? TIA Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-04 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:20, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:42:17AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > Using a setuid root program (sudo) to avoid having cdrecord or cdrdao set > > up as setuid root just does not any sense to me at all. > > Well, sudo can

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-03 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:59, Qian Gong wrote: > > > > > > Sudo is a solution. > > > > Well, that way a user that can run cdrdao can run basically everything, > > can't he? > > No. By sudo you can limit the user to run a specific program, even with > specific options. sudo is a setuid program, it need

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-02 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:14, csj wrote: > What mirror did you use? There is a list of rsync, ftp, http mirrors at the bottom of this link: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html#order > I suppose you can't effectively rsync two > different iso images (say from version 3.1 to 3.2). I

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-02 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 04:22, David Fokkema wrote: > > Well, you are right, so I tried, :-). It works, so there is reason to be > glad. However, I'm still wondering how paranoid I must be to still want > cdrdao to run without setuid. Furthermore, without setuid and with group > permissions or somethin

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-02 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:56, David Fokkema wrote: > > > > I think you might need to setuid cdrdao > > > > hth > > Bob > > If there is any other way, I'd rather not do that, :-) I'm no expert really, and maybe there is some other permissions problem going on, but I observe that with a default Debian

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-01 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Consider yourself lucky. I have problems just trying to download > the image. Just two days ago I managed to get past the 150 MB > mark, when the mirror I was using decided to put up a newer ISO > image. Just yesterday, using another mirror, I

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-01 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 03:07, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi, > > I recompiled cdrdao for stable and installed it on my server and I want to > be able to use it as a regular user. Now, > > cdrdao scanbus > > should list all devices. As root, everything is ok, two IDE devices show > up as normal, everything

Re: incremental/spanning backup to CDR

2003-03-17 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:17, martin f krafft wrote: > do people do such things? i am interested in ways of performing both > of the following: > > - incremental backups to CDR > only the changes get saved each time. i think this requires > a local repository to be able to generate the d

Re: Quiet cases (was Re: buy or build computer?)

2003-03-10 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 04:17, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Find a _quiet_ case; noisy fans can damage your hearing (ask me; I'll > > tell you. I've been around loud electronics for about 6 years now, > > servers and routers, and my ears ring all the time)

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-10 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:57, Bob Proulx wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > My post on this thread needs few errata: > > 1. CD image size can be obtained by "mount" the CD and run "df". > > Interesting. Thanks for educating us about that. > > > 2. Only "readcd" run with nexact CD size can extract the c

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:12, Levi Waldron wrote: > On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote: > > That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little > > messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and > > xargs. > > Hm? Why w

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:55, Narins, Josh wrote: > > From: bob parker, Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 AM > > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote: > > > See this post for more detail on this subject: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-07 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote: > See this post for more detail on this subject: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/msg03076.html > > -Brad > > Checked it out. From the posts it is still inconclusive. So far as jigdo is concerned I have the isos and the md5sums al

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix SUCCESS

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:39:34 -0500, > > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam > > > powered dial up connection. &g

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:47, bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > > bob parker wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > > > i bu

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but

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