Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:51 it was so written: On May 2, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Curt Howland wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:40, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was Portland, Oregon is a great argument against privatization of critical

Re: Floppy stuff [was Re: What is the dd command ???]

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew wrote... [snip] microwave (he he) I'd think that would burn it up, not degauss it :-) a quick google search turned that up as a possible way to degauss a disk (including such other dubios

daytime, RFC 867

2006-05-03 Thread petereasthope
RFC 867specifies the protocol of the Daytime service, which I believe is configured properly in inetd.conf on a machine here. Is there any client in Debian which can invoke Daytime on a neighbouring machine on a LAN? Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 15:01, Curt Howland wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:27, John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Despite the political prejudices of a great many participants, Debian may be the world's best instance of socialism in practice. If socialists were smart, they'd

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 15:09, Curt Howland wrote: Since the crime rates are so substantially different from one side of an imaginary line to another, there is something more than just geography at work. It's not like population density drops instantly the moment one crosses the border.

Re: daytime, RFC 867

2006-05-03 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:49:01AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RFC 867specifies the protocol of the Daytime service, which I believe is configured properly in inetd.conf on a machine here. Is there any client in Debian which can invoke Daytime on a neighbouring machine on a LAN?

OT puns Was: Re: Floppy stuff [was Re: What is the dd command ???]

2006-05-03 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 03 May 2006 17:39:22 -0500 Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [The pun is the highest form of humor, since it is spontaneous.] Agreed. May one, therefore, invite you to visit and possibly participate in the fun at alt.humor.puns? We have some good stuff there from time to time.

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue. On 28.04.06 20:41, Dennis Stosberg wrote: I use tmpfs for /tmp on all of my

Re: daytime, RFC 867

2006-05-03 Thread John Hasler
petereasthope writes: Is there any client in Debian which can invoke Daytime on a neighbouring machine on a LAN? Telnet, netcat... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

x11-common conflicts with xfs-xtt (= 1.4.1.xf430-6)

2006-05-03 Thread H.S.
Hello, If I try to upgrade x11-common in Debian Sid, I get this message: x11-common conflicts with xfs-xtt (= 1.4.1.xf430-6) and xfs-xtt is to be removed. I was wondering, is this something that is going to be resolved with a newer version of xfs-xtt or must xfs-xtt be removed to upgrade

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue. On

Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-03 Thread Grant Thomas
Alright, I'm not sure that the subject line is completely correct, so please bear with me. When large buildings are keyed for locks, locks can be keyed for different layers of security. So, there might be the highest key, or skeleton key's used in old houses that opened all the doors, and

sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be working fine, I getthe following messages in syslog: May 3 16:55:16 anarres

Constant crashes in unstable

2006-05-03 Thread A. srn
I have been having so many crashes in my debian/unstable box (CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ -- 2.6.16-1-486 #2 Tue Apr 25 20:33:31 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) lately. The majority of the crashes are happening when I am running some sort of video processing. For example, when I dump my digital video

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was pleasantly surprised with the functionality provided. The 'on demand' allocation makes it much more

Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:17:16PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be working fine, I

Re: udev: invalid rule

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dimecres 03 Maig 2006 21:23, John L Fjellstad va escriure: Does the /usr/lib/hal/hal-unmount.sh exist and executable? Yes: $ ls -l /usr/lib/hal/hal-unmount.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 398 2006-05-01 23:07 /usr/lib/hal/hal-unmount.sh Is from hal 0.5.7-2. Seems a bug:

Gnome locale

2006-05-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm not sure if this is a problem with my local setup or if something has changed with the packaging of Gnome in the last few months, but Gnome seems to be convinced that it's running with a UK locale. All of the menus are in proper (UK) English. Colours, organisations, Wastebasket instead of

Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-03 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 3 May 2006 21:17:16 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] Follow this thread: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.1/0127.html Maybe a kernel upgrade is in

Can't Drive Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection

2006-05-03 Thread solarix
hi, I had installed Debian Sarge 3.1 on a computer with an Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection. I found module e100 loaded, but when I typed ifconfig eth0 ip, it told me: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device The following are part of dmesg and

Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be working fine, I getthe following messages in syslog: Good

Re: Multi-layered PKI implementation

2006-05-03 Thread James Westby
On (03/05/06 20:29), Grant Thomas wrote: When large buildings are keyed for locks, locks can be keyed for different layers of security. So, there might be the highest key, or skeleton key's used in old houses that opened all the doors, and multiple levels of sub keys, down to a key that

ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-03 Thread Fawad Nazir
Hi All, I installing Ubuntu 5.10 with 2.6.16 kernel. Everything went well but when i restarted the kernel it gave me the: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1ubuntu22) Build-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of build-in command

Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Fawad Nazir wrote: Hi All, I installing Ubuntu 5.10 with 2.6.16 kernel. Everything went well but Are you aware that there are mailing lists and forums for Ubuntu? (Hint: debian-user is not one of them). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc

Re: Can't Drive Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection

2006-05-03 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:31:34 +0800, solarix [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: hi, I had installed Debian Sarge 3.1 on a computer with an Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection. I found module e100 loaded, but when I typed ifconfig eth0 ip, it told me: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting

Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-03 Thread Fawad Nazir
I also did sent an email on Ubuntu group. Unfortunately, i could not get a reply. I just thought to send it to debian-users to hit a broad range of users. If it makes any trouble for you, I apologize for any inconvenience. However, I think there is no harm to get help from experts no matter where

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