Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy

confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm perplexed by the following. My wife made a movie (WMV suffix) with Windows MovieMaker. She posted it on a machine running Novell's Novonix web server. If I typed the file's URL into a browser window, it just displayed a full page of non-ASCII junk. This was true from both XP Explorer and

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 19:53:13 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or display it as

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:53:13 -0500, I wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or display it as text.

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:11:08 +0200 Marcus Blumhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First of all, please CC me when replying, since I am not subscribed to this list. [...] And as I rarely decompress files, I have forgotten the command to decompress tar/bz2 files . [...] I just

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-16 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Hi, First of all, please CC me when replying, since I am not subscribed to this list. [...] And as I rarely decompress files, I have forgotten the command to decompress tar/bz2 files . [...] I just wanted to add my ¢2. You may want to evaluate the package named unp and you will never

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-15 Thread Orestes Leal
El Mar, 14 de Agosto de 2007, 8:29 pm, Frank McCormick escribió: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:36:52 +0900 Takehiko Abe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Well, I always store there all the sources related with my kernel, modules, etc... I haven't get any problem... BTW, remember doing the symlink to /usr/src/linux from your kernel-source.

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 21:27, Wayne Topa wrote: Anybody? Where do people dump their kernel source anyway??? I have always put my kernels in /usr/src. First time I've _ever_ heard of DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area. Just what readme did you see _that_ in? From

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Ed Jabbour([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Tuesday 14 August 2007 21:27, Wayne Topa wrote: Anybody? Where do people dump their kernel source anyway??? I have always put my kernels in /usr/src. First time I've _ever_ heard of DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area. Just what

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first things it says is DO NOT USE THE

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Frank McCormick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
thats where the debian kernel source files will go if I need to download them and I dont want things to get confused. -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Takehiko Abe
Frank McCormick wrote: Well, I always store there all the sources related with my kernel, modules, etc... I haven't get any problem... BTW, remember doing the symlink to /usr/src/linux from your kernel-source. Well then why the warning from the Kernel developers? And what's this about

Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Frank McCormick
I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my Quadro-pro card... I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first things it says is DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area because that is

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Frank McCormick wrote: I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my Quadro-pro card... I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first things it says is DO NOT USE THE

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my Quadro-pro card... I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped

confused on from where to disable IPv6

2007-05-29 Thread arnuld
i have Debian Etch amd64 using netinst CD. i want to disable Ipv6 as it causes problems. i know what i need to add: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off on Fedora i add these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf and internet troubles go away :-) now on debian i have these 3 files: /etc/modprobe.conf

Re: confused on from where to disable IPv6

2007-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:21:15PM +0530, arnuld wrote: i have Debian Etch amd64 using netinst CD. i want to disable Ipv6 as it causes problems. i know what i need to add: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off on Fedora i add these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf and internet troubles go away

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-11 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Scott wrote: H.S. wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and it had been a long day. I use lightning extension in Icedove. Interesting. I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1,

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Scott
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 08:19, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do that? Oh, terribly sorry

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-10 Thread H.S.
Paul Scott wrote: Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and it had been a long day. I use lightning extension in Icedove. Interesting. I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being compatible with Iceweasel. I just tried and got

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Scott
H.S. wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and it had been a long day. I use lightning extension in Icedove. Interesting. I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being compatible with Iceweasel. I just

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-10 Thread H.S.
Paul Scott wrote: Did you try installing it in Icedove? That's a good question! I went to the IceDove Tools menu and chose Extensions. Then I chose Get More Extensions which took me to https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php?app=%7b3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6%7d using

Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do that? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do that? I'd like to know that too, AFAIK, Icedove is a MUA, not a PIM. Joe - -- Registerd Linux

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do that? Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and it had been a long

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 08:19, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do that? Oh,

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/07/07 08:19, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 08:19, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 09:28, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 08:19, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice

[Solved] Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

2007-03-07 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: I use lightning extension in Icedove. Interesting. I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being compatible with Iceweasel. And it complains correctly. Lightning is an extension for Icedove (Debian version of Thunderbird), not of the browser

icedove confused with new DST? Shifts events by 1 hour

2007-03-06 Thread H.S.
Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the next week, the event is shown one hour ahead of the time I specify. For example, if I specify an event for next week's Tue, 10h00~11h00, it is shown at 09h00~10h00. I have to drag that even one hour to correct

Re: confused.

2006-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
José Alburquerque wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'm confused. I thought the debian kernel was preemptive, and has been as far as I can remember. Am I wrong? Or do I have a misunderstanding of what preemptive means in this context? What the posters are talking about is a new

confused. (was: Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel)

2006-09-22 Thread hendrik
is to my knowlege more widly spread on the server side then on the desktop side... I guess I'm confused. I thought the debian kernel was preemptive, and has been as far as I can remember. Am I wrong? Or do I have a misunderstanding of what preemptive means in this context? -- hendrik

Re: confused.

2006-09-22 Thread José Alburquerque
side then on the desktop side... I guess I'm confused. I thought the debian kernel was preemptive, and has been as far as I can remember. Am I wrong? Or do I have a misunderstanding of what preemptive means in this context? -- hendrik What the posters are talking about is a new

Confused about installations - overlaying a testing package into a stable install

2006-08-01 Thread K. Richard Pixley
Hello. I'm a long time unix/linux geek, debian newbie. And I'm confused about installs. I understand that the stable distribution line is intended to be a series of integrated packages. I understand that testing is a set of newer packages, which have met a set of stability criterion which

Re: Confused about installations - overlaying a testing package into a stable install

2006-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:10:34PM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: Hello. I'm a long time unix/linux geek, debian newbie. And I'm confused about installs. I understand that the stable distribution line is intended to be a series of integrated packages. welcome! I understand

Re: Confused about installations - overlaying a testing package into a stable install

2006-08-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/08/06 17:10), K. Richard Pixley wrote: Hello. I'm a long time unix/linux geek, debian newbie. And I'm confused about installs. OK :) I understand that the stable distribution line is intended to be a series of integrated packages. sarge, the current stable, is a rock solid

Apache2 on Debian ScriptAlias Directives, I'm still confused

2006-07-28 Thread Cary Pembleton
Cary Pembleton IT Consultant PC Tech Help, LLC 32 Cove Lane Campbellsville, KY 42718 (270) 789-0187 Office http://www.pctechhelp.net -Original Message- From: Cary Pembleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:27 PM To: 'Guillaume' Subject: RE: Apache2 on Debian

Re: really confused about root's shell - please clue me up

2006-07-26 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:02:20PM +0200, LeVA wrote: Hi! When my root's shell is `/bin/bash' in the /etc/passwd file, and I do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile (/root/.profile) gets executed. After setting the root's shell to `/bin/sh', and do `su' as a simple user, then

really confused about root's shell - please clue me up

2006-07-24 Thread LeVA
Hi! When my root's shell is `/bin/bash' in the /etc/passwd file, and I do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile (/root/.profile) gets executed. After setting the root's shell to `/bin/sh', and do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile doesn't get executed until i run su as

Re: really confused about root's shell - please clue me up

2006-07-24 Thread John Hasler
'man bash' and read the section titled INVOCATION. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

man-db confused by X man page relocation

2006-04-18 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and up-to-date Debian unstable i386 port. Each day I get an email from cron that says: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink

Re: man-db confused by X man page relocation

2006-04-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
Edward C. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and up-to-date Debian unstable i386 port. Each day I get an email from cron that says: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory mandb: warning:

HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Toby Satchell
across due to the partition usage size not changing. ( had booted into a XP partition on the server to check that worked also check the partitions and they seemed fine so i am completely confused. Never seen this before, not sure entirely what the problem is or how to fix it. I hope somebody

Re: HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Jacob S
fine so i am completely confused. Never seen this before, not sure entirely what the problem is or how to fix it. When I got that error just over a month ago it was a dead SATA drive. I would immediately do any backups you can and hope that you can claim warranty on the drive. Booting your

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net http://forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user for example. It's not an issue in my mind. However you can get the best answers to your

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-18 Thread Hex Star
PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I might be acting a bit paranoid here but I am starting to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net http://forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-18 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:13:44AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I might be acting a bit paranoid here but I am starting to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user for example

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums? Related ?

2006-03-18 Thread Willie Wonka
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:13:44AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I might be acting a bit paranoid here but I am starting to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net and other mailing lists

[OT] Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums? Related ?

2006-03-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Willie Wonka: Please trim extraneous text next time. subscribing to it, thinking it was necessary to join/post on this list (linux.debian.user) This is the list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- They are the gatekeepers of the Usenet _newsgroups_ linux.debian.* (and perhaps others)

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, On forums.debian.net, people should be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when they don't get an answer there, because debian-user has more 'powerusers' than forums.debian.net. The audiences of both support resources are reasonably separate, because people tend to either swear by forums, or

users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi all I might be acting a bit paranoid here but I am starting to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user for example. For example, recently a post is made to debian-user http

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-17 Thread Hex Star
I did that on purpose because I find that often when I rely on one source for support I may not get a solution or even a reply...thus I feel it's best to post my question in multiple support avenues so I get the best chance for replies and help...I'm not confused between the different avenues, I

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-17 Thread Hex Star
to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available -forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user for example.For example, recently a post is made to debian-user http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg01447.htmland the same question is being

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
all I might be acting a bit paranoid here but I am starting to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net http://forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user for example. It's not an issue in my

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-17 Thread Hex Star
paranoid here but I am starting to feel that users are getting confused between multiple forms of support available - forums.debian.net http://forums.debian.net and other mailing lists such as debian-user for example. It's not an issue in my mind.However you can get the best answers toyour questions

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 03:03:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:42:30AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +, Adam Funk wrote: It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for me. For example, nowhere on

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:20:59 + Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word Xeon mentioned, so if I bought a Xeon

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-25 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have a wide range of choices. You can go pure 32 bit and install the standard i386 Debian, you can go mixed and have a 64 bit kernel an 32 bit user space or you can go pure 64 bit. I've never tried a mixed system but apparently it

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-25 Thread dan-martins
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:42:30AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +, Adam Funk wrote: It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word Xeon mentioned, so if I bought a Xeon computer,

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +, Adam Funk wrote: It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word Xeon mentioned, so if I bought a Xeon computer, for example, I wouldn't know from that page alone to install

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 20 February 2006 03:10, Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? Thanks, Adam I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/ gives you the information you seek. If not, what is missing? It may

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:55, Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/ gives you the

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word Xeon mentioned, so if I bought a Xeon computer, for example, I wouldn't know from that page alone to install AMD64.

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Funk
running the 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 kernel at the moment which is AMD64 specific. If you are confused just go for one of the generic kernels. Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names and tells which kernels will work on which ones? Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-20 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 2/20/06, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors you mention do this but don't quite me

Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Funk
I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those processors? I'm also concerned about the potential shortage of 64-bit software for a

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:02, Adam Funk wrote: I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those processors? I'm also concerned

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:02, Adam Funk wrote: I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those processors? I'm also concerned

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra features and the Althon 64 in 32 bit mode is just as fast. Does that mean I can just install Debian i386

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Smith
-1-amd64-k8 kernel at the moment which is AMD64 specific. If you are confused just go for one of the generic kernels. Graham Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/17/06, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 14:42, Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

2006-02-04 Thread Rodney Richison
Mike McCarty wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya forgot-who started it Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3

Re: Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

2006-02-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/2/06, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if you're confused .. do NOT change files in anything other than your own home directory /home/you once you get brave ... decide if you want to enforce others to use bash or csh or tsch or zsh or hudred-other-sh

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

2006-02-04 Thread Rodney Richison
I am running sid with kde3.5. I have some aliases in /etc/bash.bashrc. In konsole as user if I type alias I get all aliases. But in root konsole, I don't get aliaes. Why? Hmm, I dunno. My bash.bashrc on my desktop just has source /root/bash in it. The /root/bash file has all my alias's

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

2006-02-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya forgot-who started it Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3 for bash, why is that?) why

Re: Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

2006-02-02 Thread Felipe Caballero Gil
QUOTE: Mark Wright wrote: Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3 for bash, why is that?)I don't know

Re: Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

2006-02-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya forgot-who started it Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3 for bash, why is that?) why ?? because

mdadm and raid confused

2005-12-28 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I've been trying to play around with mdadm and software raid, but got some problems, I have two sata disks(80gb) which Im trying to mirror, i did it during the installation of debian testing. And it seems like it worked well, but then I started testing to unplug one disk at the time(with

Re: Confused by modules

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 21:20 -0700, Cam wrote: My ultimate goal is to run patched versions of modules hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs so I can run kismet or prismstumbler. I am presently running 2.4.26 that came with Sarge but Debian doesn't offer 2.4.26 kernel sources so I apt-got 2.4.27 kernel

Confused by modules

2005-10-23 Thread Cam
My ultimate goal is to run patched versions of modules hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs so I can run kismet or prismstumbler. I am presently running 2.4.26 that came with Sarge but Debian doesn't offer 2.4.26 kernel sources so I apt-got 2.4.27 kernel sources, did the configuration (including

Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Fritz
I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. I see a list of files, none two large. What do I need to do next? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/20/05, Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. I see a list of files, none two large. What do I need to do next? Use a bittorrent client. You need to download one. If had a Debian installation around, you would do something like: # apt-get install

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/20/05, Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:22 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 9/20/05, Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. I see a list of files, none two large. What do I need to do next? (cut) $ btdownloadcurses

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/20/05, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/20/05, Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:22 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 9/20/05, Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. I see a list of files, none two large.

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
bittorrent and bittorrent-gui are also available. However, I'm wondering why not using jigdo. It's supposed to be the preferred method to download debian iso's, and it doesn't congest the servers either. The mechanism is a bit different since the packages are separately downloaded, but

confused on mailman

2005-09-02 Thread Joe Mc Cool
subscribe sheep-subscribe returns no errors. But I get no acknowledgement and subsequent mails to sheep are not mailed to me as a subscriber. Confused :-( I need an idiots guide. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: confused on mailman

2005-09-02 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: so far I have: apt-get install mailman I've read: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/108 and carried out all the instructions except adding the following lines to my apache config file: Alias /pipermail/

Re: udev or no udev, I am confused

2005-07-29 Thread pier
phyrster wrote: Out of a rackless upgrade, 'df' command shows the following line: |/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 ext38.0G 4.1G 3.6G 53% / instead of /dev/hda2. I think I deleted some packages but I can't trace back. My question is: will udev change the situation? (I am

udev or no udev, I am confused

2005-07-28 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers, Out of a rackless upgrade, 'df' command shows the following line: |/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 ext38.0G 4.1G 3.6G 53% / instead of /dev/hda2. I think I deleted some packages but I can't trace back. My question is: will udev change the situation? (I am

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-09 Thread Basajaun
Luis Finotti wrote: Dear Basajaun and all, Basajaun wrote: [snip] Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest directory(ies) residing in /, e.g. du -sh /* then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger partition, where space is not a

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown ChatagnierL-Home:~# df Filesystem

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Allison
Joris Huizer wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
[snip] Phil said: Your / partition is where /lib lives, and you've only got ~18MB. I'd say your modules directory should take up more than that. 30MB+. Prolly not enough space. Hey Phil, thanks, that explains it. Now how to get more space on /? I could resize partitions with cfdisk and

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:36:21AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: if resizing / really cannot be done, maybe create a new /lib partition instead Don't do this! /lib, /bin and /etc MUST be on your root filesystem or the system won't boot. Frank -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   >