Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. any journally fs will be slower than non-journaling fs ( ext2, dos, etc ) (2) Neither JFS nor XFS can be made smaller, although they can be extended if needed. i

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya David Brodbeck wrote: On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: No. The NTFS file system does not need defragmentation. all file systems can use a defragmentor lets assume a disk format of: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 .. 63( aka sectors ) if you try to read/write a

Re: rebuilding a system remotely? - idea

2006-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roberto Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I did this with a couple of Red Hat servers a few years ago. They were located in a server room at the university and I did not have a key, but wanted to do the rebuild over the weekend to minimize disruption. Anyhow, what I did was to transfer all

Re: Doubts regarding /initrd and /linuxrc

2006-08-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi vivek Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote: Can some one provide me with pointers to the funtion of the /initrd directory in Debian ? /initrd as with all other distro is used by the initrd.img file during its bootup ( loading of modules ) during the kernel boot process - in lilo/grub,

OT - linuxpicnic.org

2006-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya debianites OT as you know, LinuxWorld is in SF and on the following Sat, Aug 19, 11am - 5pm is Linux Picnic 15 ( 15 years of linux ) to rsvp ( recommended for food prep and t-shirt counts ) http://www.linuxpicnic.org/guests/rsvp.pl if you're in the neighborhood, do stop on by

Re: Autofs help

2006-06-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tony Tony Heal wrote: 14-series:~# cat /etc/auto.master # /opt/epace-storage /etc/auto.epace-storage --timeout=300 of you change * to epsace-storage below.. you need to change /opt/epace-storage it is best to use /.autofs instead of /opt/something and use symlinks cd

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ron Ron Johnson wrote: /boot should NEVER be a sepearate partition in todays machines unless you are booting directly into memory or lvm or crypto or other distro that does not run on real disks Please justify the strong word NEVER. NEVER ... unless is a contradiction. it

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David R. Litwin wrote: It seems to me, still, that though XFS is faster ext2 is the fastest fs out of ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs - read, write speed - xfs, jfs, reiserfs is faster for formatting (en general! Don't lop off my head for

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david - this must be a test from tonights svlug.org meeting On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David R. Litwin wrote: Hallo friendly list: I've decided that windows has to go and a swap has to come. So, I'm a gonna clear the hard drive of my Toshiba satellite A70 laptop and give myself a new start

Re: dual head with 2 graphic cards issue

2006-05-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi nico Nicoco wrote: here is my xorg.conf : good... Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout OptionXineramatrue # # looks like ati config tool is messed up # Screen 0 aticonfig Screen 0 Screen 1 deuxieme Above aticonfig Screen 0 whacky

why bother Re: dual head with 2 graphic cards issue

2006-05-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nicoco On Wed, 24 May 2006, Nicoco wrote: the 0 0 does not change anything it wont sorry but I don't understand !!! where is the error here ? aticonfig Monitor 0 is used by aticonfig Screen 0 used in Layout the point: it is not working for one reason or another ... BusID

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know *for sure* where grub puts the MBR? (No setup command) yes... Well the MBR, is always in the same place. It is *always* the first 512 bytes on the physical

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Rick Friedman wrote: Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / /home. Each partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system. I would like to hear

Re: How to compare the output of two commands?

2006-04-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Sonixxfx wrote: To be more specific I want to compare a list like this, but much longer, to another list of text that has the same structure: /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/unzip /usr/share/doc/unzip/copyright /usr/share/doc/unzip/BUGS

Re: How to compare the output of two commands?

2006-04-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, John O'Hagan wrote: comm (command1) (command2) or kdiff x y c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB error 18

2006-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Debian installed on my extra computer, but whenever I start it, it goes to stage 1.5, then gives me error 18, and stops. I have found out that error 18 has something to do with the boot loader and 8 gigs, but I'm not sure. I

Re: / full?

2006-04-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:16:25PM -0400, Chris Parker wrote: I have filled up the / partition. a copy of fstab is below: $/ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 250M 249M 0 100% /

Re: debian vs redhat

2006-04-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: solid. Debian stable may be able to run on an unplugged ^ computer any machine can boot and run in the unplugged state, otherwise your config is not properly configured but,

Re: debian vs redhat -fair

2006-04-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: To be fair, RH9 was released 03/31/2003, while Sarge was released 06/06/2005. I would say that a difference of 2+ years would be quite significant in terms of hardware support and general application stability. bingo ... some folks like to

Re: nfs performance

2006-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Michael Schurter wrote: I use the client for burn my dvd data (with smbmount) but the speed of my dvd is 1,380Kbs :-((( this mean a lot of time per single disc :-((( put your *.iso image on a local disk on the same system as your dvd burner Better. You would

Re: i want spam

2006-03-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Chance Platt wrote: Interestingly, I read a piece once about a gentleman trying to get his email address spammed. He did everything -- signed up on the mailinglists, gave the address to porn websites, .. everything. and go to places that offer free stuff So if I were

Re: hacked server

2006-03-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Jon Miller wrote: I have a hacked server that has a few rootkits installed. I'm going to rebuild this using the following procedure: 1) backup data files 2) copy /etc/*.conf 3) either make an image of the system and then blow it away or get new drives. Have I

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: Dell is not paying $135 for a copy of Windows. Are you sure? Look how they cut corners on hardware right up through the midrange. dell cuts corners by: a) making a custom motherboard b) making a custom power supply c) making custom cables and pcb

Re: having problem with locales ?

2006-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: hi all, which locales should i select to see characters like ý,þ,ç,ö,ð,ü correctly on konsole ? en_US UTF-8 doesnt show them right :'( an example output of a php code: [in english: file successfully opened and then closed.] Dosya baþarý ile

Re: UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote: http://home.no.net/david/i18n.php and locale -a says use LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf-8 but /etc/locale.gen and /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED seem to say zh_TW.UTF-8. different distro seem to use differently named files .. i think the font files are case sensitive

Re: dns?

2006-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Rylan Vroom wrote: Hello, How do you tell debian to use a local dns server before going to = the ones maintained by my ISP? you can't ... vi /etc/resolv.conf localhost dns.isp.net dns2.isp2.net if localhost does not reply in time, it's bz ls -laR'ing, it

Re: how to configure hostname and /etc/hosts?

2006-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hello, I have a notebook which I often move between sites and ocasionally use without network connection. I have set up hostname to 'fnote' and set up /etc/hosts this way: 127.0.0.1 localhost fnote.local fnote This

Re: how to configure hostname and /etc/hosts?

2006-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost w.x.y.z fnote.debian.org fnote www oranythingelseyouwant but real dns men, put w.xy.z and its reverse into a dns file and only define localhost in /etc/hosts I do

Re: UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote: For the locales stuff, should I use zh_TW.UTF-8, zh_TW.Utf-8 or zh_TW.utf-8? My guess is the latter, from locale -a. use the utf ( lower and upper case sensitive ) version supported on your pc ( output of locale -a and xlsfonts ) to change between

Re: Changing locale

2006-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: I am changing my locale to ta_IN. I have export LANG='ta_IN' in my .bashrc, '. $HOME/.bashrc' in my .bash_profile, and '. $HOME/.bash_profile' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using Default System Session. those settings only affects

Re: Font, fc-list and xlsfonts

2006-02-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya sed On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Sed Nivo wrote: Why some fonts that i can see by fc-list i can't see by xlsfonts and xfontsel? Verdana font for example. I copy they from Windows. fc-list is an app that reads your font list from XF86Config or equiv - you probably won't have all

Re: latest on botnets

2006-02-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ has some unbelievable numbers: the average botnet (network of compromised PC's) has 36,8000 members! None of these can be Debian boxes running chkroot regularly, right? no ... chkroot will try to

Re: Sarge and RAID

2006-02-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Sion Dafydd wrote: I've come into posesion of a spare 40 GB drive which I want to use to hold the boot, swap and root partitions, while the two 250GB disks mirror one large partition. Well, for some reason using this configuration /dev/md0 does not get initilaized on

fud - Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lamb On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - snipping unjustified/unmerited misunderstanding on your part ... i wont bother to reply to pointless arguments - if you look closely, your defense is bascially name calling as you know what you're doing and i dont .. so be it .. -

alternative Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya for fun ... and i'm sure this is nothing new to the those with the security paranoid disease ( or sleepease ) for those that want to try to figure out what files was compromized on your machines... after the fact .. but, if you can do BEFORE you go live, ( ie .. just after you install

Re: alternative Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya johnannes On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: for fun ... and i'm sure this is nothing new to the Thanks for the funny post. Unfortunateley, it doesn't relate to the subject line. Maybe you should have started a new thread: how can I in future make

Re: Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and spend another week or month to harden and verify all the all configs and user info ( i say, if you're doing it right, it will tke you about 3 days to a week to harden the new box and verify it ) Personally I spend about

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

2006-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tac Question: Is there a better way to do what I'm doing? And is there already a piece of software that exists on the NET that does what I'm doing better and I should trying to re-invent the wheel? :-) to do backup.. it implies you want the backup to be intact if something goes wrong

Re: Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Carl Fink wrote: Once you're rooted, this is way easier and more effective than trying to fix things. personally, it is 1000x easier to fix and remove the security problems than it would be to start from step -1 reinstalls ... and spend another week or month to harden and

Re: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya james On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with mdadm -As /dev/md0 - this is what yup... mounter was concerned. So I ran mdadm --assemble (with --scan, IIRC), left yup ... it to cook for ages, don't use 1TB sized home dirs :-) ( which may be 12-36 hrs depending ) and hw

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 ...

Re: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) fsck.ext3: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md0 /dev/md0: not good .. - is the partition type set to FD and the boot flag ( a ) turned on - i assume you have the raid modules in your initrd for the kernel

Re: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya james On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, I should have clarified that I am booting from hda, makes life lot esier for booting a raid5 subsystems that would than imply that you need to have mdadm assemble your raid system, before the system boots ( fsck's your

wrong RE: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tyson Varosyan wrote: Again, I apologize for posting a Windows-based problem on this board, but I still providing entertainment of your sillyness .. #1: Edit your httpd.conf file. Find the line that reads listen :80 and replace it with the IP of website #1 followed by

fun Re: wrong RE: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya kent On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Kent West wrote: Alvin, you and I have both been on this list long enough that it's obvious to me that you're a smart guy with lots of valuable knowledge and skills. But why be rude? yeah... i guess it's easy to confuse rude with poking fun at um i'm a

Re: HELP!!!mozilla can't display Chinese

2006-01-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! I don't have canna. Is canna for input Chinese? I'm not sure. i never use canna. Which fonts can you use when choosing Chinese font in Preference dialog of mozilla? I have only serif and Sans serif. what is the environment variables ??

Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Tyson Varosyan wrote: At the risk of having my hand slapped I will ask, since I bet there are quite a few Apache users on this board. ... I am using Windows 2000 and Apache 2.0.44 ... Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. ... no wonder :-) c ya alvin

Re: LaCie 2TB - Firewire 800 with Debian Sarge 3.X

2006-01-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, TAC Forums wrote: We are planning to buy the LaCie 2TB External Drive to backup 1.3 TB of data from a Debian Sarge 3.X installed Server. Please see the link below. you'll be 100x happier with 4 (pata) disks at 500GB each c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: linux 2.6.15 and overheating

2006-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:40, John L Fjellstad wrote: After I upgraded the linux kernel to a custom compiled 2.6.15, I keep getting shutdown because of overheating (one of the last message is something about the temperature hitting 93 C or

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya drbob On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: I use mdadm to manage my array. The command was mdadm --set-faulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 --remove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 i'd think there might be a short cut version, but i'm being lazy to go look it up - i'd set it faulty first, if the

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya drbob On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), what exaactly did you type BEFORE you removed the bad disk ?? raidhotadd, raidhotremove, etc, etc.. is required ( aka good idea ) So I went into the

Re: Is RAID1 alive and well?

2006-01-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Chinook wrote: Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop I recently tested imaging and restoring my complete system with Mondo (before I screw it up again :-) good that you can backup/restore ...

Re: Exim using incorrect hostname [SOLVED]

2006-01-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Chris Howie wrote: Daniel Webb wrote: I had to make my /etc/hosts file like this before exim4 worked right in this respect: 127.0.0.1 foobar.com localhost not 127.0.0.1 localhost foobar.com the corrrect way should be: 127.0.0.1

Re: removing autofs from sarge installation

2006-01-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Paul E Condon wrote: In all cases, one of the error messages is: /etc/init.d/autofs: Unknown system, please port and contact autofs@linux.kernel.org that error message is 5+ yrs old.. you need to use a newer autofs (pkg) and startup script, say rc.autofs-1.58 or

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Matt England wrote: Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? you might be able to .. but it is NOT desired Can one run Woody-built binaries on Sarge? you might be able to .. but it is NOT desired -- you can usually run old binaries on newer systems

Re: dual monitor support

2005-12-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, rasputin666 wrote: I have several distributions of Linux and have as yet to find one that will support dual monitors with my Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT graphics card. My question: Will debian or any other distro do this? all distros will work ... - how much fiddling

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: I read somewhere that this isn't a problem with rsync, that it only copies atomically. So are snapshots even needed if using rsync? yes... snapshots is needed if rsync doesn't do what oyu want I'm curious as to the relative merits of rdiff-backup

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On 21 Dec 2005, David A. wrote: Hello, since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. network boot, booting off compact flash, booting off usb will make that box quiet, or boot a distro off /boot and no other

apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: One nit to pick here: - find | tar | gpg meeets all of my requirements for most all possible potential disasters and recovery As I describe on my backup page, that's a terrible

Re: apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya daniel On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: That's exactly what I'm saying: your tar | gpg methodology has not accounted for the chance of a few flipped bits, because if it had, it wouldn't lead to massive data loss, which it does. Compressing/encrypting after archiving is inferior

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: In the case you're talking about, I suggest rdiff-backup assuming you can ssh to the web server. The downside of just using (automated) rsync is that if you get corruption on your main system it may be copied to the remote system before you realize

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Arafangion wrote: Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the test should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial distributions, that bundle nice stuff out of the box. the folks willing to pay real $$$ will usually dictate what the

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk of undecipherable html from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. How the hell do we get rid of this? - add the bozo to the reject list of your mta - do not buy goods/services from that entity :-) c

Re: ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

2005-12-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Charlie wrote: I installed mplayer and when I click on the icon i get ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf. cd ~/.mplayer ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf subfont.ttf use whatever *.ttf file you want ... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jan Stavel wrote: I switched off raid in Bios and installed Software Raid: Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 497856 blocks [2/2] [UU] good But if I try to power off a disk (unplug the power cable) the system

Re: Slow copy

2005-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Ronny Aasen wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:42 +, Graham Smith wrote: Hi, This is perhaps one of the stranger questions to be asked but I'm looking for a utility that will copy a file slowly. Part of my ad hoc backup system is to copy the nightly

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient detail to enable me to use it. i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct config files ... ( or good enuff for some .. but not the silly boat i want )

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Andrew Cady wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:01:50PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: LPI - then, potentially, RHCE if you can find someone to stump up for you once you've a proven track record. Do either of these actually mean anything to anyone? if you mean

tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andy On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andy Streich wrote: But I expect you to have something in mind as well -- something of your own that has motivated you to create a new Debian site. yup.. :-) Anyway, I'd love to see not just docs for new users but configuration software that plays an

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, arden wrote: Slightly off topic sorry but Im trying to brake out of my hardware suppport role and into a more sys admin role My company will not support this so im doing this off my own back What cert would people recomend to do at home ? (This my own money

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, arden wrote: I know I can do it been using linux at home for years no windoze boxes here, need to prove it to closed minded Managers most hiring and managing managers knows .. what you do at home has nothing to do with how you do stuff at work there's a lot more to it

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Tony Godshall wrote: What cert would people recomend to do at home ? (This my own money here so cant afford corporate rates) LPI - then, potentially, RHCE if you can find someone to stump up for you once you've a proven track record. nice tip, for a

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Justin Gallardo wrote: Haha, funny enough. I am currently a student at a four year, and a term of tuition, including my housing costs (3 terms a year) was $4600, for in-state tuition. I would say that a few good certs would be much more cost effective. costwize, i

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brian On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote: Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands below will destroy your data. Read on... more serious than typo .. :-) Alvin Oga wrote: [snip] - if you want to leave bad data behind mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Mark Crean wrote: The OP's post was sincere and his questions worthwhile. His site is also new and so not yet fully worked out, so far as I can tell. I think he deserves more than you appear able to give. yes .. always give credit to those willing to put in time and

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andy Streich wrote: Sometimes it's about the personal requirement for individual recognition, but other times it has more to do with an individual having a vision and trying it out. That's not something we should be pushing back on. Sure it would be nice if all

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Josh King wrote: All I can do is give my assurances that I plan to be in this for the duration. Those who know me know I'm not one to give up easily ;-) yup... from what i can see so far .. As for help to fix the problems, I would welcome anyone willing to roll up

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
good email addy On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote: /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions. /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions. /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to the new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive

Re: 3rd party Madwifi packages for Debian Sarge won't build

2005-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Ed Young wrote: I'm trying to install madwifi to get my dwl-g510 wifi card working. Atheros chipset. I can't find madwifi packages when searching the stable branch, so I downloaded the file madwifi-source_20041023-1_all.deb from http://madwifi.sf.net that's (

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I download the kernel files from kernel.org wget http://www.kernel.org/your-favorite-kernel.bz2 or use scp both tellls you how fast you are .. if you know the size of the

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I Watch your attributions! I DID NOT WRITE THAT! never said you did ... watch foretc.. c ya alvin

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Alex Goldman wrote: 1. ran memtest86 for 15 minutes, it found no errors (I think the whole test suite may take hours) that is typically a waste of time, since you cannot do anythign else whiles is bz pretending to diag your system ( that used to work ) 2. ran dd

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: Money really does == speed. sorta... depends .. i'd say it's more like: technology + know-how == speed | price | performance | reliability | capacity ( choose 4 of the 5 criteria ) killers would be : namebrand + marketing/advertising hipe

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter spamassassin in the past I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. spam howto ... gazillion

Re: web-based http password/group manager

2005-11-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: vi ... takes about 5 seconds bring up the files to add/delete users :-) Yes, because as we all know vi is really web based. No, really. it should be fun to write a front-end to vi to make it look like a point-n-click thingie ma jig for those

Re: Debian Raid Crash Repair

2005-11-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Siju George wrote: I had a mirror o sarge with 2 disks. One of them failed now. I had given an option for 1 spare disk while configuring Raid. Could some one please tell me what I should do to Place a new disk and recreate the mirror?? Should I manually partition the

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Andreas Rippl wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white But it has no effect. Anyone know what

Re: web-based http password/group manager

2005-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Can anyone recommend a good web-based (CGI, PHP etc) manager for HTTP password/group files? Specifically I need to maintain a list of users, and assign the users to one or more groups. vi ... takes about 5 seconds bring up the files to

Re: web-based http password/group manager

2005-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote: vi ... takes about 5 seconds bring up the files to add/delete users :-) This is true ;-) Except for encrypted passwords. Anyway, I want web-based so that web accounts can be administered more simply. couple minutes to make a cgi-script that:

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Andrey Andreev wrote: Ricardo Teixeira wrote: Andrey Andreev wrote: Ricardo Teixeira wrote: Since I updated to 2.6.14-1-686, hda is in PIO mode, and when I do hdparm -d1 /dev/hda i get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted. ... And my controller is an

Re: kernel-compile-troubleshooting -- help with a howto

2005-11-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Matt Price wrote: I've compiled my own kernel numerous times but am not programming-literate; often I wish there was a howto that explained the significance of certain common problems that I seem to have over and over again. which problems Haven't found one, though,

Re: files became readonly!!

2005-11-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Johan Ask wrote: Maybe i was to quick to ask the list... I rebooted and it told me to manally run fsck. I did and know it works properly... But i still want to know the cause... i've seen this bug on other distro too .. - for us, if you remove terabytes of files on

Re: Problems with kinput2

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:09:59PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote: I also have the following in my ~/.xsession: [...] export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 um... did you want to see english or japanese text ?? export LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 export LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf-8 notice

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote: Hi Finnish friends! A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are supported by the most

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to look up compatibility under ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). if you're using, its NOT a compatible hw, since you're using the windoze drivers on the

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andrey Andreev wrote: And my controller is an nForce2. Which makes it even more mistifying. not mystifying ... nforce sometimes make their own ide controller and it's not open source driver ( no source code, binaries only ) - see if you have the nvidia ide

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andrey Andreev wrote: I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module tainting my kernel. if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide, than too late you have

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Wackojacko wrote: I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module tainting my kernel. if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide, than too late you

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Wackojacko wrote: I have an nforce4 motherboard running dma enabled with the standard nforce2 ide driver from the kernel :). bingo .. exactly ... nvidia like to control *your pc* even if it's not video or (nvidia) network Exactly how is this different

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Thomas wrote: recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. What would be an adequate reaction to repeated ssh bruteforce attacks? you should know if and that your systems are

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