Re: Graphical interface problem

2005-07-13 Thread Carl Fink
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 at a command prompt, when running as the root user? What happened? If nothing else, try using the VESA server. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce

Re: Problem when migrating Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-07-12 Thread Carl Fink
how can I restore my system ? Have you tried apt-get -f install? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
a netBSD disk or something else completely unrelated to Debian. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Downloading Debian CD: stable or testing?

2005-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
Debian repository. Places like backports.org and apt-get.org package stuff for Stable that's newer than the official release, but using them adds some complexity to administering the computer. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something

Re: Downloading iso image through BitTorrent?

2005-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
to install, for anyone to be sure. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-10 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
Interestingly, every single response to this thread missed my point. It's a bug that the system checks for a DHCP server on a nonexistent network connection. Telling me how to manually fix it is irrelevant -- it's a bug. Which package should I report it against? -- Carl Fink

Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
of to attempt to send DHCP requests to a nonexistent network connection, or is this a bug? If it is, what package should I file it against -- that is, which package creates that script? (I actually use a WiFi card to connect that laptop over 90% of the time.) Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: sarge or etch?

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list substituting references to 'stable/sarge' with 'testing/etch'. Really? I used the daily netinst build from etch on my new PC last week and it worked perfectly, aside from not detecting my video chipset. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: sarge or etch?

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
and it worked perfectly, aside from not detecting my video chipset. Where it is? http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/ -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: sarge or etch?

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:36:34AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (08/07/05 17:16), Carl Fink wrote: Really? I used the daily netinst build from etch on my new PC last week and it worked perfectly, aside from not detecting my video chipset. OK, I confess to not having looked it. You

Re: OT: Windoze spyware?

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
with 0 or less then 0. Unless you divide by 0, but of course that is an imaginary number (i). Division by zero is invalid. It does not produce i, the square root of -1, it simply means you can't use that formula in that situation. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Did you try either of the things mount suggested (mounting /dev/sda or looking at dmesg)? -- Carl Fink

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
, or an emulator like Bochs, to use them. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Installation Questions

2005-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
of days ago with ntfsresize, which is on the Etch install image. It worked beautifully. Mind you, I definitely suggest backing up first. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini

Re: mount ntfs only readable?

2005-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
, and what I did, is to shrink the NTFS partition that Windows is on using ntfsresize, and use some of the free space to create a separate FAT32 partition for data to be shared between Windows and Linux. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix

Re: mount ntfs only readable?

2005-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
console and run ntfsresize manually. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: mount ntfs only readable?

2005-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:05:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:36:51PM -0400, ebenoit wrote: Carl is it possible to do this: I have a 100gb hd the whole hd is an ntfs file system, however I only have 46gb of information I want to save could I shrink

Re: apt

2005-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:07:12AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Carl Fink on 05/07/05 03:40, wrote: dpkg --get-selections myselections.txt Actually, is that a list of all available packages? It shows that some are set 'deinstall': No. It's a list of every package I have ever

Re: boot in xp

2005-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
, but it was incompenent. IF you could help me I will be pleased. It's hard to tell since we don't know what you did to your partition table. Boot off a Knoppix or equivalent CD and post the output of fdisk -l. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
that if someone isn't interested in learning a fair amount about how to configure a Linux box, other Debian-derived distributions like Ubuntu and Morphix and Knoppix might be more user-friendly. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com

Re: mounting usb devices consistently

2005-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:52:11PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Incidentally, why put the mount points under / and not under /mnt or /media? For those of us who like the command line, it makes for less typing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you

Re: apt

2005-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
thing I had to do was fiddle with the X setup (due to hardware differences). -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian based compatible distros

2005-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:09:38AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Am looking for suggestions of debian 100% compatible distro's. Strictly speaking, 100%-compatible would have to BE Debian. Why do you want a different distro that you can then pretend is Debian? -- Carl Fink

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
that contains a keylogger. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian based compatible distros

2005-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:37:27AM -0500, Rodney wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Why do you want a different distro that you can then pretend is Debian? Save me alot of time apt-getting, installing, user friendly for noobs etc... Kinda like one of MY systems, but with the popular stuff

Re: Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2005-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 07:51:19PM -0400, marcel usma wrote: im running linux mandrake kde 3.3 limited edition 2005 how can i fix this problem Ask on a Mandrake mailing list. This one's for Debian. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: debian hosting service

2005-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
their virtual server service. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:04:15PM +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: On Tuesday 28 June 2005 17:10, Carl Fink wrote: What's the advantage of xmms over gmplayer, vlc, gxine, and/or totem? [snip] What would you suggest? The ones you mentioned are all Video players, aren't they? They play

MySQL setup cloning?

2005-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
-way replication at all, just the ability to manually copy everything over once a day or so. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: MySQL setup cloning?

2005-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:53:16PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: mysqldump -A backup-file.sql (on main server) mysql database backup-file.sql (on backup server) man mysqldunp EXACTLY what I needed. You're a lifesaver. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: debian hosting service

2005-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
a separate FTP space that can be used to back up your virtual server. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
incredibly finicky mouse control to hit tiny, meaningless graphical buttons. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: debian hosting service

2005-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:17:03AM -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote: can anyone recommend a good hosting company that provides debian sarge (either dedicated or virtual private server)? Rimuhosting.com. Among other advantages they respond to e-mail literally within minutes. -- Carl Fink

Re: Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
issue in the kernels. Thank you. But why only on the desktop and not the laptop? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-26 Thread Carl Fink
peripherals work fine on my other Debian Testing system, a laptop. I suspect hardware, but I thought I'd ask the assembled minds here if there's any other software stuff I should try before pricing motherboards. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer

Re: Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-26 Thread Carl Fink
send out the warning message, then go into a noninterruptable wait state. Annoying. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cannot burn 612MB iso

2005-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:27:06PM -0400, Kudret G?ler wrote: However, when I try to check md5sums of all files on the new cd-rom, some of the files fail. also /var/log/messages collects some errors ... What happens when you try to mount the CD? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 - crash

2005-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
What USB chipset do you have? Certain types of USB access can lock my box It's more often syncing my Palm Tungsten T3 than memory (SD) card access, but I've had a lockup if I task-switch while writing to the card. I have the VIA VT82x (UHC) chipset, FWIW. USB 1.1. -- Carl Fink

Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 - crash

2005-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:29:59AM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What USB chipset do you have? Sorry, but how would I find out? Search the output of dmesg for the string usb. (That's what I did.) -- Carl Fink

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-22 Thread Carl Fink
in resolving dependencies. From now on switch to aptitude. No they don't. They say Use aptitude when upgrading from Woody to Sarge. Nothing about any other situation. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Re: Laptop Lockup

2005-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
Things I might try: 1. A bootable-CD Linux, say Kanoppix or Gnoppix or Morphix. 2. Compiling a kernel that has NO APM or ACPI support. If this doesn't lock up, it's strong circumstantial evidence that your current kernel is the problem. -- Carl Fink

Re: Laptop Lockup

2005-06-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:21:40PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Help us to help you. Please provide all the relevant details before posting a question. One more question to answer: what are the last 10 or so lines of /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog after a crash? -- Carl Fink

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-17 Thread Carl Fink
/bin/rename Wasn't rename a command in VMS? Mind you, I used VMS for a few weeks ten years ago. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-17 Thread Carl Fink
mmv at all? ... [more snipping] For someone like me who never learned regexps, krename works fine. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Software support for Belkin UPS?

2005-06-17 Thread Carl Fink
. Thanks, Jerome. Should I file a wishlist bug for mention of this in the docs? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cannot unsubcribe from mailing list

2005-06-16 Thread Carl Fink
the action. Otherwise anyone could unsubscribe you without your even realizing it immediately. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Mailinglists

2005-06-15 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Software support for Belkin UPS?

2005-06-15 Thread Carl Fink
and the two interesting ones are in beta. Did I miss something in packages.debian.org? Should I file a request-to-package for one or both of the projects I found at Freshmeat? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:48:35AM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: There is a tool called apt-setup, which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. And apt-spy will determine which servers are currently most efficient. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: Mailinglists

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
on your server, though. I administer a medium-to-small-sized Mailman setup, about 15 mailing lists, 200 or so users. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: packages.debian.org down? (June 14 2005)

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
Works fine from here. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
on my Debian based computer with minimal need for re-writes to accomodate upgrades. Have you looked at the fp-* and gpc packages? Or p2c? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
read on Slashdot. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
) Have you considered dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends? (You might try one of those options alone rather than both at once.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Carl Fink
: you do realize that LCD is an insult, right? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:46:20PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Just out of curiosity: you do realize that LCD is an insult, right? What is LCD? Least Common Denominator. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
to. The system I'm using here, quoted material followed by response, means that reading it corresponds to the order in which the material was created and makes more sense. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
later) has read the whole thread and doesn't need context. Note that bottom-posting most definitely requires quote-trimming, as others have said and demonstrated. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:25:48PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Also, no new installer this time, which eliminates what I perceive to have been the biggest bottleneck. How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
was a Notes admin and developer once upon a time.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
this time, which eliminates what I perceive to have been the biggest bottleneck. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Problems seeing USB mp3 player... any help?

2005-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
-beta.google.com/group/ILO-MP3) has someone else asking about Linux drivers, so it isn't apparently a solved question (contradicting Mr. Stanley's comments in the other linked page). -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

2005-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
... Why do you want to use OpenOffice for this? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

2005-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
to edit the documents. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS? Printer.

2005-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0500, Jay Zach wrote: I'm not really sure where to go with this problem , but it's frustrating. File a bug report? (Trim your quotes?) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken

Re: Problems seeing USB mp3 player... any help?

2005-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: My wife bought me a Rage MP 256M MP3 player for my birthday. I can't find a reference to this player in Google. Could you post the manufacturer and model number? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister

Re: Problems seeing USB mp3 player... any help?

2005-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
(presumably obtainable directly from CPAN but that's the first link my search found) http://sourceforge.net/projects/ravempgui/ This stuff looks pretty obsolete. None appear to be packaged for Debian. At least one other effort seems to have been abandoned due to DMCA fears. -- Carl Fink

Re: Debian Sarge 3.1

2005-05-30 Thread Carl Fink
image from debian.org and install Sarge directly. The procedure Mitja describes was the recommended way to install Sarge before the installer was finished -- but that was a while ago. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something

Re: Cannot boot Debian Unstable after shutdown.

2005-05-29 Thread Carl Fink
only know Lilo), you'd get something much like that. Boot off a LiveCD of some kind (Knoppix, Gnoppix, whatever) and rerun Grub's tell me where the kernel is program. In Lilo you'd just edit a config file and run /sbin/lilo. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Carl Fink
: the version of X you're using isn't as accelerated as Windows XP's driver. I don't suppose you're about to install X.Org? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Carl Fink
on purpose, so RAM containing the swapped data or executable is available if a new task arises. If the swapped stuff is called for, it's used from RAM and no time is lost. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken

Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong

2005-05-21 Thread Carl Fink
that the # only works a the beginning of a line. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About Sarge's bootup

2005-05-16 Thread Carl Fink
is it a problem and why do you want to stop it? It isn't hurting anything. Note my accidentally appropriate signature file. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: broadband question

2005-05-08 Thread Carl Fink
. Or Ubuntu, a Debian-based distribution that might be easier to install and is definitely more current than Woody. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RealPlayer

2005-05-07 Thread Carl Fink
totem. Quality of play in full-screen mode is better to my eye, and the user interface is enormously superior. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-08 Thread Carl Fink
remove Konqueror from /etc/mailcap (because I don't want it to ever start automatically) do I find it nevertheless the default program to open both PDF and HTML files a day later? What process is changing my defaults without permission? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's

Re: Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
it is. What do you mean? PS, why are you using konqi if you don't like kde? Because I do like Konqueror. Why is that mysterious? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: locatedb is world readable

2005-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
dpkg-reconfigure findutils? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
. Seconded. They've been very helpful. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: konqueror Depends: on kcontrol which you can use to disable sound effects without explicitly loading the desktop environment. Really? It opens with NO options listed in the left pane. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:35:27PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: No - you're finding a Konqueror built for old versions of the libraries you just upgraded. Log out and back in and you should be OK. By this you mean restart X, right? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's

Re: Trouble configuring debian

2005-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
luck. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Broken Konqueror?

2005-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
it even more irritating. Do I have to load the rest of the very-annoying KDE to find the stupid configuration option to turn off the sound FX? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Carl Fink
) And yours. Sturgeon actually said that 90% of everything is crud. (I have this from Damon Knight, who was in the room when he said it.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why My Modem is confuse, including me ?

2005-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
with incorrect settings. Ideally, ask someone who has a laptop (portable) computer to visit you and try to connect. If they can connect at high speed on that phone line, the problem probably isn't the line -- it would then probably be the modem. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's

Kernel upgrade followed by Palm sync freezing X?

2005-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
whatever after the connect from message. PAM problem? Who knows? I thank you for reading this far. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
in email. Instead, I would read the list off a web archive. Mailman has this as an option (settable by each user individually). I also subscribe several of my e-mail addresses to the lists as NOMAIL so I can send mail to the list from any mailbox without worrying about it being rejected. -- Carl

Re: apt-get update aborts with errors

2004-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:03:24PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Well, it sure seems to say that you have duplicate lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Can you post that, or check it yourself? -- Carl Fink

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
email viruses are scripts executed by the mailer. If you have a script-executing mailer there's no reason it couldn't execute a virus under Linux. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:15:01AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 10:50 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: Well, no. Most email viruses are scripts executed by the mailer. If you have a script-executing mailer there's no reason it couldn't execute a virus under Linux. Very true

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
or a commercially feasible name? Sure, and versions named potato and slink and etch sure sound professional, don't they? What a weird criterion to use. Hell unix is a joke name, it's just old enough that people don't think about it much. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
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Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
have said: no need to copy me on responses, I do read debian-user. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't MPlayer in Debian?

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
Mplayer is available for, if not in, Debian at ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ [your distribution] main If you aren't aware of apt-get.org, it's really useful when a program you want isn't in the main Debian distro. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister

Re: erased iPod software

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
to restore it? Can you still mount it? If so, borrow someone else's iPod (same model) and copy the files from that over to yours. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing all available packages in sarge (testing)

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
system at once.) It's a bad idea. Why do you want to do that? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linspire - Devian ?

2004-12-24 Thread Carl Fink
: back up /etc at the very least, so you have a known set of good settings in case whichever installer you use doesn't detect the hardware perfectly. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-23 Thread Carl Fink
? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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